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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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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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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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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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Female education, marital assortative mating, and dowry : theory and evidence from districts of India
Goel, Prarthna Agarwal; Barua, Rashmi - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 89 (2023) 2, pp. 183-209
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Improving the well-being of adolescent girls in developing countries
Bergstrom, Katy; Özler, Berk - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 38 (2023) 2, pp. 179-212
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The Educational Gradient in Marriage: A Comparison of 25 European Countries
Kalmijn, Matthijs - In: Demography 50 (2013) 4, pp. 1499-1520
Previous research has suggested that a new marriage gradient has emerged in the United States, with marriage becoming … in the marriage gradient among 25 European countries, using multilevel models. The focus is on the chances of living in a … married. For men, the educational effect on marriage is absent in traditional countries but becomes positive as gender roles …
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What a difference a term makes: the effect of educational attainment on marital outcomes in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 2, pp. 387-419
In the past, students in England and Wales born within the first 5 months of the academic year could leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, those who were required to stay on an extra term more frequently hold some academic qualification. Using having...
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The Black-White Gap in Non Marital Fertility: Education and Mates in Segmented Marriage Markets
Stone, Joe - In: Journal of Labor Research 33 (2012) 3, pp. 328-336
United States. Both a general and an education-based metric have strong effects. The novel statistical power arises from …
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