Marriage Markets in Developing Countries

Anukriti, S; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya

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“…In general, the motivating factors for enrolling in medical schools are the scientific rigor of medicine and socioeconomic status and financial perspectives. For females, additional motivators include the social prestige of the profession, better opportunities to marry a professional [32], cultural preference for female physicians in conservative communities, and a desire to help poor people [33]. In response to this feminization of healthcare professions, some studies show positive and negative consequences.…”

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Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico

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Background: The third Sustainable Development Goal aims to ensure healthy lives and to promote well-being for all at all ages. The health system plays a key role in achieving these goals and must have sufficient human resources in order to provide care to the population according to their needs and expectations. Methods: This paper explores the issues of unemployment, underemployment, and labor wastage in physicians and nurses in Mexico, all of which serve as barriers to achieving universal health coverage. We conducted a descriptive, observational, and longitudinal study to analyze the rates of employment, underemployment, unemployment, and labor wastage during the period 2005-2017 by gender. We used data from the National Occupation and Employment Survey. Calculating the average annual rates (AAR) for the period, we describe trends of the calculated rates. In addition, for 2017, we calculated health workforce densities for each of the 32 Mexican states and estimated the gaps with respect to the threshold of 4.45 health workers per 1000 inhabitants, as proposed in the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health. Results: The AAR of employed female physicians was lower than men, and the AARs of qualitative underemployment, unemployment, and labor wastage for female physicians are higher than those of men. Female nurses, however, had a higher AAR in employment than male nurses and a lower AAR of qualitative underemployment and unemployment rates. Both female physicians and nurses showed a higher AAR in labor wastage rates than men. The density of health workers per 1000 inhabitants employed in the health sector was 4.20, and the estimated deficit of workers needed to match the threshold proposed in the Global Strategy is 70 161 workers distributed among the 16 states that do not reach the threshold. Conclusions: We provide evidence of the existence of gender gaps among physicians and nurses in the labor market with evident disadvantages for female physicians, particularly in labor wastage. In addition, our results suggest that the lack of physicians and nurses working in the health sector contributes to the inability to reach the health worker density threshold proposed by the Global Strategy.

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“…Marriage Previous work has documented positive assortative mating on education in the marriage market (Anukriti and Dasgupta, 2017;Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2002;Hahn et al, 2018). We explore the impacts of INPRES on the spousal characteristics of the first generation men and women (Table 6) and find some evidence of improved marital outcomes for women exposed to the program, but not for exposed men (Table 6, Panel B).…”

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Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program

Mazumder

Triyana

Rosales

2019

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We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations. We find that individuals exposed to the program have better health later in life along multiple measures. We also find that the children of those exposed experience improved health and educational outcomes and that these effects are generally stronger for maternal exposure than paternal exposure. We find some evidence that household resources, neighborhood quality, and assortative mating may explain a portion of our results. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the long-run and multigenerational benefits when evaluating the costs and benefits of social interventions in a middle-income country.

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“…On the contrary, in 2017, the result shows that if the birth order of an individual increases by one, the probability of singlehood increases by 11.7%. Some studies found that women who have multiple older female siblings tend to marry later due to their family's preference of marrying their daughter based on the birth order (Anukriti and Dasgupta 2017, Field and Ambrus 2008, Malhotra and Tsui 1996, Vogl 2013.…”

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Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

Setyonaluri

Maghfirah

Aryaputra

2020

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This article examines the role of education in the likelihood of being never married among older adults in Indonesia. Following the Multiple Equilibrium Framework, our paper argues that increasing education imposes a more common trend of singlehood since marriage continues to be a near universal norm in Indonesia. Previous research found that increase in education delays marriage, but few studies have paid attention to the role of education in the decision to stay single. We use Indonesia National Socio-Economic Survey or SUSENAS 2007 and 2017 - two datasets with ten years span - to see whether there has been a change in the effect of education on the probability of permanent singlehood among women and men aged 40-65. The result from the logistic regression confirms a U-shaped relationship between education and singleness propensity. Our key finding is that an additional year of schooling reduces the probability of being single up until senior secondary level, while having education beyond high school increases the probability of being single. Our result implies that traditional norm towards gender role remains strong in Indonesia. We also find that both highly educated women and men have similar likelihood to stay single in this setting.

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Marriage Markets in Developing Countries

Cited by 17 publications

References 71 publications

Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico

Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico

Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program

Norms in Transition? The Relationship between Education and Singlehood

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