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This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
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This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
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This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...
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since 2000 and summarises their findings on the welfare and pricing implications of opening the postal market to competition …
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This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...
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