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Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Hopkins, Ed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

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Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics

Galichon, Alfred; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

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The Mystery of Monogamy

Gould, Eric D; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …

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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …

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The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labour Supply

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

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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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...

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Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Female Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911

Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

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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Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates

Gould, Eric D; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

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'I Vont To Be Alone' Transitions to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce Among Young Americans

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

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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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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