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| Bercea, Brighita; Oreffice, Sonia. |
| This paper further explores the role of sex ratios on spouses bargaining power, by focusing on educational attainment in order to capture the qualitative aspect of mate availability. Using Census and Current Population Survey data for U.S. metropolitan areas in year 2000, a quality sex ratio is constructed by education brackets to test the effect on the intra-household bargaining power of couples in the corresponding education bracket. We argue that a relative shortage of suitably educated women in the spouses potential marriage market increases wives bargaining power in the household while it lowers their husbands. Additionally, we test the prediction that this bargaining power effect is greater as the assortative mating order by education increases.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12185 |
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| Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent. |
| We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work significantly more hours and earn more labor income, controlling for both spouses’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Conversely, no such effect is found for either unmarried individuals or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related. Heavier married men compensate for their negative physical trait by providing their wives with more disposable income, working more hours and earning... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Body Size; Labor Supply; Earnings; Marriage; Labor and Human Capital; D1; I1; J1; J22. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56209 |
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| Oreffice, Sonia. |
| I estimate how intra-household bargaining affects gay and lesbian couples’ labor supplies, investigating their similarity to heterosexual decision-making, in a collective household framework. Data from the 2000 US Census show that couples of all types exhibit a significant response to bargaining power shifts, as measured by differences between partners in age or non-labor income. In gay, lesbian, and heterosexual cohabiting couples, a relatively young or rich partner has more bargaining power and hence supplies less labor, the opposite holding for his/her mate. Married couples value the older spouse instead, or the richer. No effects are found for same-sex roommates. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Household Decision Making; Same-Sex Couples; Labor Supply; Consumer/Household Economics; D1; J22. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44468 |
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