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On the Relationship Between the Marriage Squeeze and the Quality of Life of Rural Men in China
American Journal of Men's Health, 2017 China is facing a male marriage squeeze, as there are more men in the marriage market than potential female partners. As a consequence, some men may fail to ever marry.
Xueyan Yang PhD +3 more
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De la niñez a la plena madurez
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2004 The journey towards the age of maturity or marriage was a vital, complex stage for women, since it involved risks and mishaps not only for daughters who lived under the jurisdiction of parents and tutors, but also, and above all, for those other young ...
María Teresa López Beltrán
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Marriage and Fertility in a Catholic Society: Eighteenth-Century Quebec [PDF]
There are similarities and differences in marriage and fertility behavior between early North American societies and their modern counterparts. This paper investigates the quantitative importance of differential fecundity, assortative matching, and ...
Aloysius Siow, Gillian Hamilton
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In developing countries, where access to markets and services is limited, poor households often rely on social networks for support. We examine the correlates and outcomes of help‐seeking behaviour among impoverished households in Uganda. We use micro‐household data from the Living Standard Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture ...
Yuanhang Wang +2 more
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Age at Migration and Social Integration [PDF]
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market.
Aslund, Olof +2 more
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Partners not for life? on the determinants of marriage dissolution in Indonesia
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 While there have been numerous studies exploring the determinants of divorce in social science, economic studies on such marriage dissolution are scarce.
Handalusia Husni Vici +2 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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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how access to finance (credit access) influences business recovery and entrepreneurial performance among youth‐led informal food enterprises in Ghana, with implications for financial inclusion, entrepreneurial ability and post‐crisis business resilience in developing economies.
Bernard Kwamena Cobbina Essel +4 more
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The Immigrant Plight/Immigration Law: A Study in Intractability
Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2012 This Essay provides a new theoretical perspective on colorism by considering it from an economic point of view. It relies on three theories of law and economics that explain racism.
Robert A. Ferguson
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Are there Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets? [PDF]
The returns to scale of marriage markets have important behavioral and welfare consequences. It is quantitatively difficult to estimate the returns to scale because, due to endogenous migration, the marriage market size is endogenous.
Aloysius Siow, Maristella Botticini
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