Divergence or convergence?: Income inequality between cities,towns and villages in Japan

Researchers have emphasized different aspects of income inequality, including the statistical evidence of interregional per capita income convergence (following the economic growth theory) and the increase in individual income inequality. This study clarifies these issues, by analyzing the interregional income inequality of cities, towns and villages data in Japan from 1986 to 1999. The results of this empirical analysis show that the interregional income inequality decreases in the 1990s, in spite of the increase in individual income inequality.     

Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on demographic trends in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e., the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases fertility, marriage, and divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family formation in the aggregate. Further, we find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore alters the organization of the average family.     

大学生婚恋家庭伦理危机及教育对策研究

大学生恋爱、性行为越来越普遍,婚姻问题开始出现,代际矛盾、冲突也非个别现象。这其中存在的价值取向和道德缺失问题,引起社会舆论的广泛关注。对此,高校不可坐视,须有所作为。本文通过调查分析,了解大学生婚恋家庭伦理危机状况;并提出,要因势利导,借助多种途径和渠道,强化婚恋家庭伦理道德教育,促进大学生身心健康成长和社会风尚的良好发展。     

The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Marriage Migration*

We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform that generated exogenous variation in marriage behavior by a complete abolishment of marriage migration for immigrants below 24 years. The reform influenced immigrants from countries with a high historical rate of marriage migration more than immigrants from country groups with a low rate. We find that the dropout rate for males increases by 25 percentage points as a consequence of marriage to a marriage migrant, whereas the effect for females is small and mostly insignificant.     

我国无效婚姻立法之问题疏理与破解路径

我国无效婚姻的立法不完善，是实务案件审理难的主要症结。未来立法修改时，应当增设原则规范，以弥补类型列举的疏漏；明确对过错方的责任认定和对无过错方的损害赔偿；检察院参与诉讼，保证无被申请人的诉讼中各方利益关系人的合法权益；区分婚姻不成立与婚姻的无效和可撤销。同时，加快家事诉讼立法，以统一的、专门的程序处理包括无效婚姻和可撤销婚姻在内的婚姻家庭纠纷。     

Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction in Korea: When Gender Matters

Using detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to 2008, this paper finds significant gender differences in impacts as well as adaptation patterns to major life and labor market events in Korea. Men remain on a higher happiness level throughout marriage, while women return to their baseline happiness within only two years. Consequently, men suffer more from divorce and the death of a spouse. This marital gender happiness gap is equivalent to a (husband only) increase of annual per capita household income of approximately US$17,800. The study further finds that men suffer more from unemployment. Results are robust to the inclusion of multiple simultaneous events and the use of different estimators.     

Where has all the gender gone?

What questions should economists be asking when looking at how markets affect women? This comment expands on a debate begun on Femecon-l and continued in the “Debating Markets” article.     

关于宁波市高职女生婚恋观的调查

目前，高职院校的女生人数占学生总人数都已经超过50％，其年龄一般在18岁至25岁之间。这个年龄段正是婚恋观逐步走向成熟的年龄。正确的婚恋观关系能影响到女性一生的幸福，非常值得关注思考。为了了解宁波市高职女生的婚恋观．我们调查了宁波市5所高职院校，分别就恋爱、婚姻和性爱三方面对5所高职女生进行调查以获得对这些院校女生的婚恋观一些探讨，更好地为高职教育提供参考。     

Rational Underdevelopment*

We propose a two‐region two‐sector model of uneven development, where technological change benefits either the lagging or the leading region. In this framework interregional transfers may lead to persistent underdevelopment; by raising wages, transfers reduce the chance of the backward region adopting a new technology and taking off. Due to uncertainty about which region benefits from technological change, the backward region may rationally choose to remain underdeveloped, while the advanced region continues to pay transfers. The model provides a rationale for cases, such as Italy's Mezzogiorno, where the same rich region subsidizes the same poor region on a continuous basis.     

先秦“结婚旅游“质疑

在中国上古时期“结婚旅游“现象不可能“广泛存在“和“蔚然成风“,所谓女娲兄妹上昆仑举烟占婚的神话并不具有旅游的性质;洪水滔天的故事没有结婚旅游的动机和浪漫.