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448 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14442
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match
Dan Anderberg, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14415
One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China
Jun Han, Zhong Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14406
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14385
Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14379
With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting.
Giorgio Brunello, Eiji Yamamura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14352
Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
Patrick A. Puhani, Margret K. Sterrenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14271
The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14264
College as a Marriage Market
Lars Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259
The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14250
Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India
Sofia Amaral, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Nishith Prakash
under review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239
Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14226
Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14225
Gender Norms and Domestic Abuse: Evidence From Australia
Yinjunjie Zhang, Robert Breunig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14185
Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landerso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14144
Gender Norm Conflict and Marital Outcomes
Francisca M. Antman, Priti Kalsi, Soohyung Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14122
Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14066
Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14001
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Replication and Reappraisal of "For Better or For Worse? Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey"
Pelin Akyol, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997
Moms' Time—Married or Not
Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura
forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13881
Mining and Gender Gaps in India
Amanda Guimbeau, James Ji, Nidhiya Menon, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13841
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Amalia Miller, Carmit Segal, Melissa K. Spencer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13839
Female Employment and Childcare
Lena Hassani Nezhad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811
Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13810
Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger, Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13781
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Anna Aizer, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13659
The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest
Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Guglielmo Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13630
Educational Gender Gaps
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13621
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi
Manuela Angelucci, Daniel Bennett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13601
Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective
Dorothée Averkamp, Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13594
Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage
Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13570
Can't Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty
Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13495
Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018
Christopher Jepsen, Lisa Jepsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13487
Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?
David Slusky, Donna K. Ginther
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13473
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13398
Family Life in Lockdown
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13377
Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data
Cahit Guven, Lan Anh Tong, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (1), 50-77.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340
Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13332
COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad, Derek Mikola
forthcoming as 'Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak' in: Canadian Public Policy, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13329
In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
Christina Gathmann, Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Lauri Sääksvuori, Robin Stitzing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13312
Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy
Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13111
Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061
Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999
The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12952
Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(4): 1499-1522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12947
Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey
Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12944
Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage
Ziteng Lei, Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876
Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Chunbei Wang
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12847
Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence
Semih Tumen, Hakan Ulucan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12820
Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12774
Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood
Gerald J. Pruckner, Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober, Martina Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760
The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12746
Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Brecht Neyt, Stijn Baert, Jana Vynckier
revised version available on request
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12721
Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12710
Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Thomas Epper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12695
Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
Nick Drydakis
forthcoming in: K. F. Zimmermann and N. Drydakis (Eds.) Gender: Handbook of Labor, Human Recourses and Population Economics. New York: Springer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12665
Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?
Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John T. Giles, Harold Alderman
published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12599
Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data
Wang-Sheng Lee, Terra McKinnish
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, Article 102205.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12563
Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment
Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516
Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12461
Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12420
Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being
Serena Canaan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12386
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12381
Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Mutlu Yuksel, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Cahit Guven
published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (310), 279-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12373
Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356
The Marriage Age U-Shape
Pavel Jelnov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12324
What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?
Pavel Jelnov
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39 (2), 1327-1335
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12311
Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China
Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12299
Marital Status and Retirement: An Empirical Study for France
Karina Doorley, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12295
Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Christina A. Houseworth, Barry R. Chiswick
forthcoming in: Review of the Economics of the Household
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12284
Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst
published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaa048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12234
Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing
revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12210
Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Dan Anderberg, Jesper Bagger, V. Bhaskar, Tanya Wilson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12206
The Impact of Bullying Victimisation on Mental Wellbeing
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12185
The Economics of Hypergamy
Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12150
Divorced in a Flash: The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Jan Kabátek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12148
Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model
Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12102
The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants
Abraham Chigavazira, Hayley Fisher, Tim Robinson, Anna Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12092
Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
Mattias Engdahl, Mathilde Godard, Oskar Nordström Skans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12082
Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation
Anna Bindler, Nadine Ketel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12025
Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff, Hugette Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11992
The Impact of Household Shocks on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Tanzania
Olukorede Abiona, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11984
Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development
Matias Berthelon, Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger, María Isidora Palma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11949
Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
Lena Detlefsen, Andreas Friedl, Katharina Lima de Miranda, Ulrich Schmidt, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11938
Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?
Gigi Foster, Leslie S. Stratton
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 63-96.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11933
Education Level and Mating Success: Undercover on Tinder
Brecht Neyt, Sarah Vandenbulcke, Stijn Baert
revised version published as 'Are Men Intimidated by Highly Educated Women? Undercover on Tinder' in: Economics of Education Review [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11902
The Dynamics and Determinants of Bullying Victimisation
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11899
Domestic Violence and Child Mortality
Samantha Rawlings, Zahra Siddique
revised from IZA DP 8566; published as `Domestic Violence and Child Mortality in the Developing World' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4): 723-750.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11885
Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11878
The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11877
Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married
Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11875
The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil
Breno Braga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11836
Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S.
Adriana Hernández Catañeda, Todd A. Sorensen
published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2019, 2 (1-2), 20 - 42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11756
Behind Every High Earning Man Is a Conscientious Woman: A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages
Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak, Julie K. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11754
Non-Labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy
Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11753
Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes
Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed, Ole J. Røgeberg
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