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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Marriage Market"”.
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Essays on Marriage Market and Intra-Household Allocation
… to the analysis of such demographic phenomena as marriage.2 While implications of his model have been tested and applied, it has seldom been estimated and, to the author’s best knowledge, never been scrutinized using micro-level data.3 Further, cohabitation, with a growing trend as an alternative …
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Romantic partner selection in a religious marriage market.
… I conduct an in-depth study of a relationship market, Victory Fellowship Church, whose community characteristics influence partnering in several ways. VFC is a nondenominational, high-tension religious group located in central Texas whose membership is a majority female and predominantly …
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Essays on matching, marriage and human capital accumulation
… capital accumulation and the functioning of marriage markets. The first chapter studies the effect of marriage market conditions on pre-marital investment. After showing how a change in the sex ratio can alter incentives for investments, I test this prediction using exogenous variation in the …
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Second weddings : a new kind of fairy tale
… girls look forward to getting married, and the marriage market is a very lucrative business, a sometimes-overlooked market is the remarriage market. This study will look at how Bride Magazine addressed the changing market toward second-time brides in the 1970s and 1980s and etiquette books …
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Three essays on U.S. economic history
… the causal effect of education on women's labor market and marriage market outcomes. I show that an additional year of education increased women's probability of gainful employment by 7.1 percentage points and being in a skilled occupation by 1.2 to 3.3 percentage points The positive returns in …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… education quality? The last chapter looks into marriage market returns to education.
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Partner selection in post-reform China: Power, privilege, and norms
The nature of marriage is both economic and social, making it an ideal object for one to study the individual behaviors impacted by social transformations that started from the economic realm but ultimately altered the social structure. Market transition theory depicted the transformation in China …
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The Influence of Adolescents' Educational Aspirations and Religiosity on the Desire to Marry Among High School Seniors
… religiosity increases the probability of marriage (Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin 1991; Goldstein and Kenney 2001; Sweeney 2002; Thornton, Axinn, and Teachman 1995). Exchange theory explains that higher levels of education increase one's odds in the marriage market, and the actual act of …
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THE IMPACT OF WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION THROUGH MARRIAGE ON SENDING HOUSEHOLDS AND COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: THE CASE STUDY OF THREE RURAL COMMUNES OF SOUTHERN VIETNAM
This thesis focuses on the international and marriage-based migration of young Vietnamese women to Taiwan and South Korea. The study examines the economic and social impact of this phenomenon on sending households and communities. The study is based on a survey conducted in 2007 in three communes …
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Essays in health and development economics
… on the childbearing decisions of parents and the marriage market dynamics of exposed children. While ample work has documented the relationship between access to sex selection technology and heavily male-skewed child sex ratios, we know little about how such exposure translates into later life …
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Market work and household production in Brazil
… Brazilian women's double burden on their labor market participation by examining whether the occupational choice of Brazilian women is affected by their gender roles and whether entry into other occupations that are not identified as female occupations has become easier since the introduction of …
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DUAL-THIN MARRIAGE AND LABOR MARKETS: LOCATION CHOICES AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES FOR PH.D. WORKERS
… individuals that often face dual-thin marriage and labor markets. The first paper investigates the degree to which single Ph.D.-trained workers, both domestic and foreign-born, face trade-offs between marriage and labor market opportunities. When job markets are not geographically …
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Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults
… apparent within the Desi (i.e., South Asian) marriage market, where explicit preferences for fair-skinned marital partners are made and lighter skin is perceived as more attractive. It is also known that, through the halo effect, attractive people are perceived to possess positive personality …
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… “ugly plot” instead of the expected courtship or marriage plots to imagine alternative futures for southern women who fall out of the marriage market. As American culture often relies upon regionalism in order to bolster national identity, viewing the southern novel through the lens of the ugly …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
… issues ranging from girls’ education to the marriage market. Yet, throughout all of the current scholarship, there still exists an apparent oversight, which leaves the male characters within this type of literature viewed, at best, as basic narrative devices or, at worst, leaves them simply …
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Microcredit Programs and Evaluation of Women's Success
… information about unobserved ability from the marriage market. It is found that incorporating estimates of women's unobserved characteristics significantly changes the estimated effect of women's observed characteristics and substantially removes the omitted variable bias. Microcredit programs …
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Marriage And Family In India
… dimensions of family life in contemporary India, marriage partner selection and female seclusion, using three different data sources: 48 interviews with the middle-class in New Delhi, panel survey data from the India Human Development Survey, and survey data from the Center for the Advanced Study …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… impacts of twenty-first-century skin-lightening markets and advertising without adequately historicising colourism. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this thesis brings socio-cultural experiences, vernacular material cultures and textual production, and intellectual histories of race and …
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The Economics of Marriage and Divorce in Iran
… consists of four chapters on the economics of marriage and divorce in Iran. The first chapter outlines major forces driving the recent transitions in Iran's marriage market. Age structure of the population, the rise of women's education, marriage and divorce laws, and fertility decline are the …
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The Black Middle-class Marriage Paradox: At the Intersection of Race, Upward Mobility, and Gender
Marriage is one of the most widely participated in and deeply gendered institutions in the world. Over time, American marriage has also become increasingly classed—selecting on those who are socioeconomically stable and college educated—and racialized—with Black Americans being the least likely …
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