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Still waiting for mister right? : asymmetric information, abortion laws and the timing of marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W.; Emerson, Patrick M. - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846011
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W. - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159512
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W.; Emerson, Patrick M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042618
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Still waiting for Mister Right? : asymmetric information, abortion laws and the timing of marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W.; Emerson, Patrick M. - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 22/24, pp. 3151-3169
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345001
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? Re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2012
largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283957
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? : re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin K. - 2012
largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550587
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Divorce, abortion and children's sex ratio : the impact of divorce reform in China
Sun, Ang; Zhao, Yaohui - 2014
This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360909
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India's Missing Girls : Biology, Customs, and Economic Development
Gupta, Bishnupriya - 2010
We review the evidence on the sex ratio among children below the age of six. International evidence shows that the sex ratio at birth is slightly biased towards boys, but boys suffer greater mortality, a pattern consistent with Darwinian evolution. With economic development, the male bias in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716209
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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio : The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
Sun, Ang - 2014
This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052555
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Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortions and Female Mental Health
Klick, Jonathan - 2010
Proponents of laws requiring a waiting period before a woman can receive an abortion argue that these cooling off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061996