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marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …
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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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In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the...
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Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is …
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should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
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This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
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Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor –...
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(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …
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This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.
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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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