A Banerjee, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses ...
J Lafortune - Unpublished mimeo available at http://sites. google. …, 2010 - Citeseer
Abstract While several studies examine the effect of marriage market conditions on
post&marital labor supply, few account for the effect that these conditions may have on
pre&marital in& vestment decisions and mate selection. This paper investigates ...
[CITATION] Marry for what
A Banerjee, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - Caste and Mate Selection in Modern …, 2009
YS Kim… - 2009 - Citeseer
Abstract The high mortality rate of children under five in developing countries has received
considerable attention. In this paper, I use the variation in rainfall within and across years at
a detailed geographic level in West Africa to estimate how rainfall shocks impact early ...
J Lafortune - 2009 - publications.gc.ca
Abstract The relative size of services industries has increased in most industrialized
countries in recent decades. In Canada, the value-added share of services in the economy
has increased from about 55 per cent in the early 1960s to more than 70 per cent in the ...
[CITATION] The Canada-US Productivity Gap
J Lafortune… - 2003 - Mimeo, Finance Canada, Ottawa, …
[CITATION] Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
B Abhijit, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - 2009 - Working Paper
J Lafortune… - 2010 - mailhost.econ.yale.edu
Abstract How does the presence of networks influence the location and occupation
decisions of immigrants and how does it change as the immigrant spends time in her new
country? This paper tries to answer this question by using the location and occupation ...
A Banerjee, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - 2009 - cepr.org
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses ...
J Lafortune - 2010 - ecn.ulaval.ca
Abstract This paper estimates the effect of granting alimony rights to cohabiting couples in
Canada. Canadian provinces extended these marital rights to cohabitating couples in
different years and using different eligibility rules in terms of cohabitation lenght, allowing ...
PA Chiappori, M Iyigun, J Lafortune… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there
exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed
ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be ...
E Duflo, D Autor, J Lafortune - 2008 - dspace.mit.edu
This thesis explores the link between human 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 ...
PA Chiappori, M Iyigun, J Lafortune… - 2011 - econ.uchile.cl
Abstract We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there
exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed
ex post. Marriages, intra-marital allocations and divorce are determined endogenously. ...
Abstract The paper analyzes the effect of a reform granting alimony rights to cohabiting
couples in Canada, exploiting the fact that each province extended these rights in different
years and required different cohabitation length. A theoretical analysis, based on a ...
J Lafortune, J Tessada… - 2011 - econ.uchile.cl
Abstract How do technological progress and adoption of new technologies respond to
changes in the availability of production factors? This paper attempts to answer this question
in the context of US agriculture in the first three decades of the 20th century and its ...
T Gross, J Lafortune… - 2011 - columbia.edu
Abstract Emergency contraception (ec) is a pill that can prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours
after intercourse. Over the past 15 years, access to ec has been expanded at both the state
and federal level. This paper studies the impact of such policies. We find that expanded ...
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