| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w20201
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 20201
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| Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension |
| Laura Salisbury
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| 发表日期 | 2014-06-05
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect this had on the rate of remarriage among these widows. This study fits into a modern literature on the behavioral effects of marriage penalties. In addition, it offers a unique perspective on 19th century marriage markets, which are little understood. Using a new database compiled from widows' pension files, I estimate the effect of the pension on the hazard rate of remarriage using variation in pension processing times. Taking steps to account for the potential endogeneity of processing times to marital outcomes, I find that receiving a pension lowered the hazard rate of remarriage by 25 percent, which implies an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of first marriage documented for this period. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; History
; Labor and Health History
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20201
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577874
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Laura Salisbury. Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension. 2014.
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