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This PhD thesis consists of three chapters on various topics in health and labour economics. The first, coauthored, chapter studies the efficiency of invoking individuals’ social preferences to increase vaccination intentions. We present results from a laboratory experiment which show that the presence of a passive player, whose well-being depends on active participants, creates a four- to ninefold increase in vaccine uptake. We interpret these results as suggestive of that social-preference focused public health campaigns may be more successful in raising vaccination rates than corrective information ones. The second chapter examines the effect of the marital property regime on marital investments and outcomes. I model marriage as a relationship under contractual incompleteness and estimate the causal effect of the marital property regime on fertility, female labour supply, marriage and divorce, using the regional variation in default marital property systems in Spain and the 2005 divorce reform. I find substantial differences in female labour force participation, fertility, and marriage rate between property systems depending on the degree of integration, which is in line with the predictions of property rights theory. The third chapter investigates whether marital contracts are useful because they enhance the value of a continued marriage or because they help deconstruct the relationship in case of separation or divorce. Using a novel, high-quality dataset on marital contracts I digitized from the records of Spanish notaries and a reform of Catalan civil law, I find strong evidence for the latter: marital contracts are valuable only if they can refer to the breakdown of the marriage.
Essays in Health and Labour Economics
IMRE, BLANKA
2021
Abstract
This PhD thesis consists of three chapters on various topics in health and labour economics. The first, coauthored, chapter studies the efficiency of invoking individuals’ social preferences to increase vaccination intentions. We present results from a laboratory experiment which show that the presence of a passive player, whose well-being depends on active participants, creates a four- to ninefold increase in vaccine uptake. We interpret these results as suggestive of that social-preference focused public health campaigns may be more successful in raising vaccination rates than corrective information ones. The second chapter examines the effect of the marital property regime on marital investments and outcomes. I model marriage as a relationship under contractual incompleteness and estimate the causal effect of the marital property regime on fertility, female labour supply, marriage and divorce, using the regional variation in default marital property systems in Spain and the 2005 divorce reform. I find substantial differences in female labour force participation, fertility, and marriage rate between property systems depending on the degree of integration, which is in line with the predictions of property rights theory. The third chapter investigates whether marital contracts are useful because they enhance the value of a continued marriage or because they help deconstruct the relationship in case of separation or divorce. Using a novel, high-quality dataset on marital contracts I digitized from the records of Spanish notaries and a reform of Catalan civil law, I find strong evidence for the latter: marital contracts are valuable only if they can refer to the breakdown of the marriage.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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