Between Marriage and the Market
Title | Between Marriage and the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Homa Hoodfar |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1997-07-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520208250 |
"There is a great need for material on the Middle East that . . . makes sense of how ordinary men and women weigh their choices, bargain, and decide what is best for themselves and their families. Hoodfar presents fascinating and original material that suggests new boundaries for what research can be considered 'economic.'"—Christine Eickelman, author of Women and Community in Oman
From Marriage to the Market
Title | From Marriage to the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Thistle |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2006-08-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520246462 |
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Marriage Markets
Title | Marriage Markets PDF eBook |
Author | June Carbone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199916594 |
There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline and women's liberation, or progressives celebrating the result of women's greater freedom and changing sexual mores, most Americans fail to identify the root factor driving the changes: economic inequality that is remaking the American family along class lines. In Marriage Markets, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn examine how macroeconomic forces are transforming our most intimate and important spheres, and how working class and lower income families have paid the highest price. Just like health, education, and seemingly every other advantage in life, a stable two-parent home has become a luxury that only the well-off can afford. The best educated and most prosperous have the most stable families, while working class families have seen the greatest increase in relationship instability. Why is this so? The book provides the answer: greater economic inequality has profoundly changed marriage markets, the way men and women match up when they search for a life partner. It has produced a larger group of high-income men than women; written off the men at the bottom because of chronic unemployment, incarceration, and substance abuse; and left a larger group of women with a smaller group of comparable men in the middle. The failure to see marriage as a market affected by supply and demand has obscured any meaningful analysis of the way that societal changes influence culture. Only policies that redress the balance between men and women through greater access to education, stable employment, and opportunities for social mobility can produce a culture that encourages commitment and investment in family life. A rigorous and enlightening account of why American families have changed so much in recent decades, Marriage Markets cuts through the ideological and moralistic rhetoric that drives our current debate. It offers critically needed solutions for a problem that will haunt America for generations to come.
Of Marriage and the Market
Title | Of Marriage and the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Young |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2023-07-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000894657 |
Despite the vast difference between first and third world societies, the subordination of women to men seems to be a universal fact. Originally published in 1984, the chapters in this book look specifically at the marital bond/contract, and locate the subordination of women in terms of that contract. Others examine the development and expansion of market relations and show how that affects marital relations, husbands’ control over wives, men’s over women.
The Meaning of Marriage
Title | The Meaning of Marriage PDF eBook |
Author | Robert P. George |
Publisher | Scepter Publishers |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2017-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1594171327 |
Marriage and the Economy
Title | Marriage and the Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2003-04-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521891431 |
Marriage and the Economy explores how marriage influences the monetized economy as well as the household economy. Marriage institutions are to the household economy what business institutions are to the monetized economy, and marital status is clearly related to the household economy. Marriage also influences the economy as conventionally measured via its impact on labor supply, workers' productivity, savings, consumption, and government programs such as welfare programs and social security. The macro-economic analyses presented here are based on the micro-economic foundations of cost/benefit analysis, game theory, and market analysis. Micro-economic analysis of marriage, divorce, and behavior within marriages are investigated by a number of specialists in various areas of economics. Western values and laws have been very successful at transforming the way the world does business, but its success at maintaining individual commitments to family values is less impressive.
Matching with Transfers
Title | Matching with Transfers PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre-André Chiappori |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2020-05-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691203504 |
Over the past few decades, matching models, which use mathematical frameworks to analyze allocation mechanisms for heterogeneous products and individuals, have attracted renewed attention in both theoretical and applied economics. These models have been used in many contexts, from labor markets to organ donations, but recent work has tended to focus on "nontransferable" cases rather than matching models with transfers. In this important book, Pierre-André Chiappori fills a gap in the literature by presenting a clear and elegant overview of matching with transfers and provides a set of tools that enable the analysis of matching patterns in equilibrium, as well as a series of extensions. He then applies these tools to the field of family economics and shows how analysis of matching patterns and of the incentives thus generated can contribute to our understanding of long-term economic trends, including inequality and the demand for higher education.