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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …

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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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What do we Know about the Relationship between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?

Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014

marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - CESifo - 2013

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...

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Social Norms, Cognitive Dissonance and the Timing of Marriage

Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia - CESifo - 2007

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years …

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An Equilibrium Analysis of Marriage, Divorce and Risk-Sharing

Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2001

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

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Marriage and Consumption Insurance: What’s Love Got to do With It?

Hess, Gregory D. - CESifo - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

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