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Love, money, and parental goods: Does parental matchmaking matter?
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While parental matchmaking has been widespread throughout history and across countries, we know little about the relationship between parental matchmaking and marriage outcomes. Does parental involvement in matchmaking help ensure their needs are better taken care of by married children? This paper finds supportive evidence using a survey of Chinese couples. In particular, parental involvement in matchmaking is associated with having a more submissive wife, a greater number of children, a higher likelihood of having any male children, and a stronger belief of the husband in providing old age support to his parents. These benefits, however, are achieved at the cost of less marital harmony within the couple and lower market income of the wife. The results render support to and extend the findings of Becker, Murphy and Spenkuch (2015) where parents meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing parental goods such as old age support.
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Ginger Zhe Jin, Ph.D.
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Ginger Zhe Jin Publications
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Luciana Gandini, National Autonomous University of Mexico & Fellow at AU
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Weakening Practices amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19
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Medicaid Benefit Generosity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid Adult Vision Benefits
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This paper examines whether Medicaid adult vision coverage affects labor market activity using state-by-year changes to these benefits.We find that vision benefits increase hours worked and occupational skill requirements, but no consistent evidence of changes on the extensive employment margin. Intensive margin effects could be facilitated by decreased barriers to transportation - when a state covers vision services, beneficiaries are more likely to commute to work by car or motorcycle rather than other modes. Our study suggests that, conditional on eligibility, Medicaid can have a positive effect on labor market activity by expanding access to services that enable work. JEL codes:I13, I18, J22, H75. Link to online-before-print version
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Michel Boudreaux, Ph.D.
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Michel Boudreaux Publications
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Mexican-American Married and Cohabiting Couples and Their Patterns of Dual Earning
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Julie Park, University of Maryland // Keywords: Mexican, dual-earning, married, cohabiting, interracial, immigrant assimilation; 2013-022
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Michael Bader, American University and Visiting Scholar
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Segregation in Place: Estimating the Contribution of White Flight to Racial Segregation in the 21st Century
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Michael Clemens, George Mason University
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Policy of Crisis: The Effect of Lawful Migration Channels on Unlawful Migration at the US Southwest Border, 2011–2023
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Michael Light, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial/Ethnic Inequality Under the Law?
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Michael White, Brown University
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Migration, Urbanization, and Health: Insights from South Africa
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Migration and Climate Symposium
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Center of Global Migration Studies half-day event
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Migration and Immigrant Processes
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