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her with respect to medical treatment, including the Pill. By the mid-1970s, the minimum marriage age had been lowered to … made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined … with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …
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differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is … which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …
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Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …
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adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …
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This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...
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The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … Employment Survey. The evidence presented here suggests that the likelihood of marital breakdown varies with the age at marriage …
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Women's disadvantages on the labour market leave them financially vulnerable when divorced. The number of elderly divorced women is growing, but their pension prospects are poor. The paper outlines current British arrangements for pensions and their treatment in divorce, and explains the case...
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Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...
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, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …
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should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
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