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Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliy; Llull, Joan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …

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Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case

Flipo, Anne; Fougère, Denis; Olier, Lucile - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Our paper is concerned with the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we consider the particular case of the French legislation voted in 1991. This law allows households employing paid help in the home to deduct from their income tax 50% of the sums...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end …

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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...

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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...

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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...

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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …

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