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Battistin, Erich, Becker, Sascha O. and Nunziata, Luca (2022) More choice for men? Marriage patterns after World War II in Italy. Journal of Demographic Economics, 88 (3). pp. 447-472. doi:10.1017/dem.2021.14 ISSN 2054-0892.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2021.14
Abstract
We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997) are matched with newly digitized information on war casualties coming from the Italian National Bureau of Statistics. We find that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a year of schooling. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in rural provinces, mountainous provinces, and provinces with a higher share of population employed in agriculture. This result suggests that in these provinces the war caused a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DG Italy H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Italy, World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Italy, Marriage -- Italy, Sex ratio -- Italy | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Demographic Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2054-0892 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 88 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 447-472 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/dem.2021.14 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Journal of Demographic Economics | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 May 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 May 2021 | ||||||||
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