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Local violence accelerates cohabiting union transitions among disadvantaged women
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Mónica Caudillo investigates this using national survey data from Mexico
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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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Low-Income Fathers' Linguistic Influence on their Children's' Language Development
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Faculty Associate Natasha Cabrera begins work on the effects of speech on children
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Low-income Latino mothers’ and fathers’ control strategies and toddler compliance.
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We explored children’s compliance to their mothers’ and fathers’ control strategies in a sample of 49 Latino toddlers and their immigrant parents during a cleanup task. We report 3 sets of findings. First, both mothers and fathers primarily used direct and indirect commands to elicit compliance. Second, there was no difference in the type of control strategies mothers and fathers used with their daughters versus sons. Mothers who used praise and indirect commands had children who complied more, whereas mothers who used direct commands and incentives had children who were less compliant. Toddlers were more compliant to their fathers than mothers, and girls were more compliant to their mothers than were boys. Third, mothers who used more direct control strategies also strongly endorsed the value of respeto. These findings highlight the importance of examining the variation in Latino mothers’ and fathers’ control strategies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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Natasha Cabrera, Ph.D.
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Lucia Corno, Cattolica University
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Parents and Peers: the Cost of Gender Stereotypes
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MacDorman co-authors midwifery outcomes research
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Midwifery linked to better birth outcomes in state-by-state "report card"
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MacDorman research measures impact of maternal mortality reporting mess in the U.S.
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Marian MacDorman and Marie Thoma (UMD) and Eugene Declercq (Boston) urge improved data collection to reduce maternal mortality
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Marital Dissolution
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Faculty Associate Melissa Kearney explores marriage markets through an R03 with North Carolina State University
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Maria Charles, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia
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Maria Stanfors, Lund University, Sweden
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Two for the price of one? Economic consequences of motherhood in contemporary Sweden.
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