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Beyond the local marriage market: The influence of modernization on geographical heterogamy
Demographic Research, 2010 This study examines whether the increase of geographical heterogamy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is related to modernization. Specifically, we test whether mass communication and mass transport enhanced the likelihood of a geographically
Ineke Maas, Richard Zijdeman
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
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Gendered production and consumption in rural Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Recent research underscores the continued importance of gender in rural Africa. Analysis of interactions within households is becoming more sophisticated and continues to reject the unitary model.
Kevane, Michael
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho +4 more
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Competing Pre-marital Investments [PDF]
Pre-marital investments by spouses are largely viewed as public goods within the marriage. So individuals may underinvest. But individuals also use their investments to compete for spouses with higher investments.
Aloysius Siow, Michael Peters
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Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study unravels how the effects of work‐life policies (WLPs) on individual employees' perceived control over their work schedule have cumulative effects across employees, ultimately crossing levels to enhance organizational outcomes like sales.
Margarita Mayo +4 more
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Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: Evidence from Malawi [PDF]
"This paper examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage ...
Ueyama, Mika, Yamauchi, Futoshi
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Intermarriage and immigrant employment: the role of networks [PDF]
, 2009 The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants’ labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant ...
Furtado, D., Theodoropoulos, N.
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Two Shades of Green? Gender Differences in Environmental Concern and Activism
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines gender differences in environmental concern and activism using data from the World Values Survey. The results indicate that women are more likely than men to be concerned about the environment, but are less likely to engage in environmental activism.
Hava Orkut, Caroline Perrin
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