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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

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Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization

Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 33-50

There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...

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Social Security and Demographic Trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 1, pp. 55-77

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...

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Economic returns to schooling for China's Korean minority

Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of Asian Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 89-102

recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …

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Knowledge, Diversity and Performance in European Higher Education

Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor) - Edward Elgar

For the first time, data on individual European higher education institutions (rather than data aggregated at the … a range of key questions, including: what is the role of non-university tertiary education, such as vocational training …

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The University and the Economy

Geuna, Aldo; Rossi, Federica - Edward Elgar

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. It demonstrates the causal interactions between universities’ activities and economic outcomes, and presents up-to-date quantitative and qualitative...

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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015

its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …

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Charitable giving in married couples : untangling the effects of education and income on spouses' giving

Mesch, Debra J.; Osili, Una Okonkwo; Dale, Elizabeth J.; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 444-458

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Education and income attraction : an online dating field experiment

Ong, David - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 19/21, pp. 1816-1830

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