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Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to the right of 0.5 in the distribution of households according to the female share of total earnings, which they attribute to the existence of a gender ...
N. Zinovyeva, Maryna Tverdostup
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Household Search and the Marital Wage Premium
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021 We develop a model where selection into marriage and household search generate a marital wage premium. Beyond selection, married individuals earn higher wages for two reasons. First, income pooling within a joint household raises risk-averse individuals’
Laura Pilossoph, Shu Lin Wee
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Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsTwo mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference, in which parents desire a male heir, and daughter aversion, in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls.
G. Borker +5 more
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
Social Science Research Network, 2009 We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the labor-market return, resulting from higher wages, and a marriage-market return, defined as the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract.
P. Chiappori, Murat F. Iyigun, Y. Weiss
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Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 14226 MARCH 2021 Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption
C. Bredemeier, J. Gravert, Falko Juessen
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Intimate Partner Violence on Women and Household Food Insecurity
Tanzanian Economic ReviewIn developing nations, there are elevated levels of intimate partner violence (IPV) directed at women. The human capital model of health demand posits that if IPV impacts women's health, it will diminish their health capital, leading to decreased ...
Martin Chegere
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Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intrahousehold Disease Spread
The American Economic ReviewPreschool-aged children get sick frequently and spread disease to other family members. Despite the universality of this experience, there is limited causal evidence on the magnitudes and consequences of these externalities, especially for infant ...
N. Daysal +3 more
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Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe use linked parent–child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly
Robert A. Manduca +13 more
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility
The American Economic Review, 2019 We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents’ siblings ...
Adrian Adermon +2 more
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Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors is determined based on GPA. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find large sibling and intergenerational spillovers that depend
Gordon B. Dahl +2 more
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