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Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022
I measure the effect of child marriage bans on female educational attainment and employment using a difference-in-differences approach employing subnational spatial and cohort variation in a sample of over 250,000 female respondents from 17 low- and ...
Nicholas L. Wilson
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Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty

Journal of Economic Literature
How is it that in perhaps the richest country in the history of the world such a large number of people struggle to acquire the basic necessities of life? Clearly, merely increasing the total quantity of goods and services produced in the market does not
E. Ananat
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Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Insights from Economic Research

Social Science Research Network
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive global issue, with approximately one in three women experiencing IPV during her lifetime. IPV prevalence is higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and costs of IPV are also considerably larger ...
M. Shah, Lydia Barski
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La loi face à la coutume : les changements juridiques en matière de statut personnel peuvent-ils transformer les pratiques maritales ?

Revue d'Economie du Developpement
Les lois sur le mariage et le divorce ont des effets complexes sur les femmes. Interdire une pratique particulière peut en réduire l’incidence, mais peut aussi engendrer des effets indésirables. Codes JEL : J13, J12, J16, D10.
Maëlys de la Rupelle, Mira Serhal
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More Than a Degree: China's College Expansion and the Marriage Market

Social Science Research Network
China has experienced a radical expansion of college education that began in 1999. We study the impacts of this college expansion on the Chinese marriage market, with a special focus on its effects on the marriage outcomes of college-educated women and ...
Mingyue Fang, Sai Luo
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The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers

Journal of Economic Literature
Over the last century, resource allocations within families changed significantly, as did marriage matching patterns. College-educated women became more likely to marry (and, to a lesser extent, have children) than less educated women. A large literature
Jeanne Lafortune, Laura Salisbury, A. Siow   +2 more
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Nexus Between Women Empowerment and Gender-based Violence in India: A Pragmatic Insight

The Indian Economic Journal
Women empowerment is the creation of an atmosphere where women may make their own decisions for their own and society’s benefit, strengthening and improving women’s social, economic, political and legal authority to assure equal rights and give them the ...
Susobhan Maiti, Govind Singh Rajpal, Tanushree Gupta   +2 more
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De quoi l’homogamie économique est-elle le signe ? Une application à l’Allemagne de l’Ouest

Revue économique
L’homogamie économique est un phénomène largement documenté, qui est souvent interprété comme résultant d’une préférence pour l’entre-soi. Pourtant, les caractéristiques des conjoints dans un ménage conditionnent non seulement leur satisfaction à être ...
Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet, J. Robin   +2 more
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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

, 2006
Joshua D Angrist, E. Bettinger, M. Kremer   +2 more
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