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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662232
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Variance effects in Bongaarts-Feeney formula
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Philipov, Dimiter - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 1999
Bongaarts and Feeney (1998) have recently proposed an adjusted total fertility rate to disentangle tempo effects from changes in the quantum of fertility. We propose an extension to the Bongaarts and Feeney formula that includes variance effects, i.e., changes in the variance of the fertility...
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DF-analyses of heritability with double-entry twin data: asymptotic standard errors and efficient estimation
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Rodgers, J. C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2000
In this paper we establish the asymptotic distribution of DeFries-Fulker (1985) regression estimates for heritability and shared environmental influences with double-entry twin data. A simple formula to estimate the covariance matrix of the coefficients in DF-regressions is provided, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818250
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The structure of social networks and fertility decisions: evidence from S. Nyanza District, Kenya
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Behrman, Jere R.; Watkins, Susan Cotts - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 1999
Demographers have increasingly argued that social interaction is an important mechanism for understanding fertility behavior. Yet, substantial uncertainty exists whether ´social learning´ or ´social influence´ constitutes the dominant mechanism through which social networks affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818255
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027322
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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …
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Marriage or cohabitation? : A survey of students' attitudes in Greece
Rontos, Kostas; Roumeliotou, Myrsine; Salvatici, Luca; … - In: Demográfia : English edition ; the quarterly of the … 60 (2017) 5, pp. 5-31
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