Topic Brainstorming

[ekarsten]

• What are the effects of required paterity leave on fertility decisions and the gender wage gap
• Can we replicate "When work Disappears" with an instance of manufacturing recovery as our instrument?
• How do immigration quotas affect marriage rates by ethnicity. Perhaps look at interracial marriage rates by ethnicity using immigration as some kind of an instrument.
• How does crime affect marriage rates
• Life insurance and marriage. One of the causes of gender wage gap is that couples make employment decisions together, and life insurance may have dynamic effects on this decision)

[ekarsten]

Interesting Article from Cedric: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740916303139

[AHKL]

This article (from my sosc class) includes some discussion of intermarriage between different ethnic groups and different religious groups: How 4.5 Million Irish Immigrants Became 40 Million Irish Americans: Demographic andSubjective Aspects of the Ethnic Composition of White AmericansAuthor(s): Michael Hout and Joshua R. GoldsteinSource: American Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 64-82Published by: American Sociological AssociationStable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2096133

[yunshu3112]

Here is an article that I found helpful for the first topic: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-007-9023-0

[ll0345]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2931940 data collection may be difficult, but the paper topic is interesting.

The authors examine gender discrimination in the financial advisory industry by looking at punishments for misconduct across genders and find that females are punished more severely (ie fired) for less serious cases.

[gelkouh]

I like the interracial marriage rates idea a lot. Something else to maybe consider: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24181 This shows that rent control in San Fransisco decreased the housing supply, but it also increased the likelihood (by 20%) that renters would stay in their current housing. Maybe we could look at whether this presumed increase in certainty about the future affected the likelihood people have kids in rent controlled areas (if they are able to continue renting in the same place vs. if their housing is eliminated bc the landlord decides to convert the property to something w/o a price ceiling, etc.).

[Alex-q-z]

Topic: Ethnicity on Marriage People for: Alena, Linfei, Alex, Roshan, Cedric, Carlos Google Doc Address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sgbiP8NJLCoYET8Yn1qUjThfvLwwo86qcd2G14rIjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Challenges & Problems to look on:

• How to "measure" the marriages
• Mis/Fake reporting ethnicity
• Where should we look? USA-level or state-level? (i.e. Levels of Analysis: County, CZ, CT)
• Yes or no quotas? Maybe weak effects? (Shall we do a version with quotas or not?)
• Control for income, Language barrier?

Resources to look on:

• Data: ACS, Ipums
• Cedric's paper on the effect of rent control in SF

  I like the interracial marriage rates idea a lot. Something else to maybe consider: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24181 This shows that rent control in San Fransisco decreased the housing supply, but it also increased the likelihood (by 20%) that renters would stay in their current housing. Maybe we could look at whether this presumed increase in certainty about the future affected the likelihood people have kids in rent controlled areas (if they are able to continue renting in the same place vs. if their housing is eliminated bc the landlord decides to convert the property to something w/o a price ceiling, etc.).

[Alex-q-z]

Topic: Paternity leave wage gap People for: April, Allen

Challenges & Problems to look on:

• This is not an original topic
• Result is not

Resources to look on:

• Professor Marianne Bertrand (at Booth)

[Alex-q-z]

Topic: insurance and marriage

Challenges & Problems to look on:

• What data shall we use?

[AHKL]

Have we already made the slides for our presentation? (even if they are empty)