The Handbook of Historical Economics 2021
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-815874-6.00037-x
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The wife's protector: a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage

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“…However, contraception was quite ineffective in the period of analysis (Greenwood et al, 2021). Moreover, our results reveal large differences by gender that are hard to reconcile with selective abortions (in the 1940s, it was not possible to predict the baby's gender).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 63%
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“…However, contraception was quite ineffective in the period of analysis (Greenwood et al, 2021). Moreover, our results reveal large differences by gender that are hard to reconcile with selective abortions (in the 1940s, it was not possible to predict the baby's gender).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…Selection issues are not a concern since more than 88% of 18-26 year old respondents in our data live with a parent, in line with official statistics. 40 Coresidence with parents during early adulthood is a widespread phenomenon in Italy with very small differences in the share of coresidence by gender, age, own or paternal educational level, geographical macro area, or number of siblings (See Figure B.1 in Appendix B). We employ the same DD framework and compare the eating habits of adult children, whose mothers were exposed to meat scarcity at ages 0-2 during WWII (treated) with those of adult children whose mothers belong to the control cohort, who live in regions that witnessed different degrees of meat scarcity.…”
Section: Intergenerational Transmission Of Eating Habitsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, considering the benefits of marriage found in this study and the decline of marriage in most countries ( Greenwood et al, 2021 ; Reynolds, 2020), future research may want to try to identify exogenous differences in incentives and opportunities to getting married.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Interessant is het dat juist economen op grond van kwantitatief onderzoek een oorzakelijk verband zien tussen de ontwikkeling van de kwaliteit en effectiviteit van anticonceptieve middelen en de afname van het aantal gesloten huwelijken. Economen van het National Bureau of Economic Research publiceerden daarover een belangrijke studie (Greenwood, Guner & Kopecky 2020). De beschikbaarheid van voorbehoedmiddelen werkte volgens hen faciliterend en rationaliserend voor het niet langer volgen van de oude idealen over maagdelijkheid.…”
Section: Seks Zonder Zwangerschapunclassified