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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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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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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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On the Causes and Consequences of Divorce

Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia; Mammini, Claudio - CESifo - 2008

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

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Will Women Save more than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra; Pereira, Alfredo Marvao - CESifo - 2010

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

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