Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women
In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 395-426
ISSN: 1537-5307
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In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 395-426
ISSN: 1537-5307
In: Journal of political economy, Band 132, Heft 2, S. 552-576
ISSN: 1537-534X
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In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 5, S. 163-167
ISSN: 1944-7981
What explains the growing gap in marriage rates between socioeconomic groups? We present a robust stylized fact not previously documented: marriage rates are higher for individuals with more assets. We argue this may be driven by marriage and cohabitation becoming increasingly similar in a number of ways except for the way assets become marital property to be divided upon divorce in marriage while they remain individual property in the case of cohabitation. We propose that ownership of assets may provide "insurance" to the partner making individually costly, but jointly optimal, investments in children, thus raising the value of marriage.
In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 5, S. 120-124
ISSN: 1944-7981
This paper provides evidence from a negotiation experiment that the 2016 US presidential election of Donald Trump had a profound impact on individual behavior in the lab. Using a Battle of the Sexes game with unstructured communication, we find that post-election individuals are less cooperative in general, more likely to use adversarial negotiation strategies, and less likely to reach an agreement. Furthermore, this is particularly driven by men acting more aggressively toward women. Our results are robust to controlling for sample selection. These results suggest that Trump's election may have disrupted community norms around civility and chivalry.
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 11176
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w25800
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In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 70-93
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: American economic review, Band 109, Heft 11, S. 3713-3744
ISSN: 1944-7981
We introduce a new experimental paradigm to evaluate employer preferences, called incentivized resume rating (IRR). Employers evaluate resumes they know to be hypothetical in order to be matched with real job seekers, preserving incentives while avoiding the deception necessary in audit studies. We deploy IRR with employers recruiting college seniors from a prestigious school, randomizing human capital characteristics and demographics of hypothetical candidates. We measure both employer preferences for candidates and employer beliefs about the likelihood that candidates will accept job offers, avoiding a typical confound in audit studies. We discuss the costs, benefits, and future applications of this new methodology. (JEL D83, I26, J23, J24, M51)
In: Journal of development economics, Band 156, S. 102839
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 156, S. 1-9
ISSN: 0304-3878
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16424
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w32350
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