Arbeitspapier
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy
We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997) are matched with newly digitized information on war casualties coming from 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 education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more rural provinces, mountainous provinces, and those with a higher share of population employed in agriculture. This suggests that here, the shock provided for 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8286
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
- Thema
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education
marriage
sex ratio
World War II
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Battistin, Erich
Becker, Sascha O.
Nunziata, Luca
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Battistin, Erich
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Nunziata, Luca
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2020
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