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Fatter Attraction: Marital Status and the Relationship between BMI and Labor Supply [PDF]
We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison ...
Climent Quintana-Domeque, Sonia Oreffice
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I Better “Not to”: Voluntary Sustainability Constraints in Mindful Organic Food Consumption
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to understand constraints from limitations and skepticism to a form of agency in consumer ethics. Framed in Granular Interaction Thinking theory, our study addresses the research question of how the voluntary sustainability constraints leverage mindful consumption.
Neha Sharma +3 more
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Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market [PDF]
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui.
Brandt, Loren +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa +3 more
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The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women [PDF]
Using data from the NLSY79, we structurally estimate a dynamic model of the life cycle decisions of young women. The women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation.
Kenneth I. Wolpin, Michael P. Keane
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The adoption of rural livelihood technologies is often hindered by a gap between participatory design and user capacity. This study addresses this challenge with a co‐designed lemongrass distillation system in rural India that remained unused due to a lack of community capacity, despite a successful design process.
Aroun Clément Baudouin‐van Os +4 more
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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AGaddy H, Sear R, Fortunato L.
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Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching [PDF]
We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men.
Adeline Delavande +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath +3 more
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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households [PDF]
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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