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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
American Economic Review: Insights, 2017 We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility ...
David H. Autor +4 more
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Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction, and marriage.
O. Bandiera +6 more
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The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
The American Economic Review, 2018 We construct a public atlas of mean outcomes in adulthood by childhood census tract. Outcomes vary sharply across neighborhoods: For children whose parents earn $27,000, the standard deviation of mean household income in adulthood is $10,420 across ...
Raj Chetty +4 more
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Social Science Research NetworkThis paper studies the interplay between genetics and family investments in the process of skill formation. We model and estimate the joint evolution of skills and parental investments throughout early childhood. We document three genetic mechanisms: the
M. Houmark, Victor Ronda, M. Rosholm
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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families
American Economic Review: Insights, 2020 This paper investigates whether the impact of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men—child penalties—can be explained by the biological links between mother and child.
H. Kleven, Camille Landais, J. Søgaard
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Violencia económica y no económica hacia personas adultas mayores en Tlaxcala, México
Papeles de PoblaciónEn México más del 87% de las Personas Adultas Mayores (PAM) viven en hogares ampliados, y la pandemia COVID-19 afectó en la economía de los hogares a través de un mayor desempleo e inflación, acompañado por un aumento de la violencia intrafamiliar.
Kristiano Raccanello
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All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 We study how promotions to top jobs affect the probability of divorce. We compare the relationship trajectories of winning and losing candidates for mayor and parliamentarian and find that a promotion to one of these jobs doubles the baseline probability
Olle Folke, Johanna Rickne
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Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Social Science Research NetworkIZA DP No. 15331 MAY 2022 Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a premium tax credit to help low-income families purchase insurance and an individual mandate penalty to encourage purchasing ...
Elliott Isaac, Haibin Jiang
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Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
The American Economic Review, 2019 We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities.
Samuel Bazzi +3 more
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022 Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors to debutantes.
M. Goñi
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