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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 …

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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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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Penalty Shoot-Outs: Before or After Extra Time?

Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper proposes a rule to determine the winner of a soccer match which is different from the traditional penalty shoot-outs at the end of extra time. We show that games can be more attractive if penalties are shot before extra time and the outcome counts only if the tie is preserved during...

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The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model the brain as a multi-agent organization. Based on recent neuroscience evidence, we assume that different systems of the brain have different time-horizons and different access to information. Introducing asymmetric information as a restriction on optimal choices generates endogenous...

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Reason, Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Building on evidence from neurobiology and neuroscience, we model the physiological limitations faced by individuals in the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal threshold, observes whether the neuronal cell firing...

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?

Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public officials. In our economy, females and males can be either high or low-skill. The number of high-skill individuals elected for public office determines the overall quality of...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Booth, Alison L; Kee, Hiau Joo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child’s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and ‘quality’....

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