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Uncommitted Couples: Some Efficiency and Policy Implications of Marital Bargaining
Aura, Saku - EconWPA - 2003
properties of different divorce asset- division regimes are examined. A stylized common-law regime is shown to lead to fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561826
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The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform
Lubotsky, Darren H. - EconWPA - 1999
The recent reform of the federal welfare system is meant to encourage recipients to leave welfare and enter the workforce. If the reform is successful there are likely to be effects felt throughout the low-- skilled end of the labor market. As former welfare recipients enter the labor market,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125827
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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan
Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000
This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125788
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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408289
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Resources Used to Produce Individual Development Accounts in the First Two Years of the Experimental Program of the American Dream Demonstration at the Community Action Project of...
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
This paper describes an attempt to measure resources used to produce Individual Development Accounts in a program run by the Community Action Project of Tulsa County. The experimental design of the program-- participants were selected from applicants at random--aims to inform the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134689
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Measuring Savings
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Development depends on saving. But what exactly is saving, and how is it measured? This paper defines saving and describes several measures of financial savings. The measures account for the passage of time and for the three stages of saving: putting in (depositing), keeping in (maintaining a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135024
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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Using Administrative Data to Examine the Efficacy of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Mueser, Peter; Ryan, Sharon; Thielbar, Melinda - EconWPA - 1999
This paper investigates the feasibility of measuring the efficacy of programs designed to move welfare recipients into jobs using administrative records on individual program participation linked with state records on individual earnings. Like many states, Missouri collects quarterly earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076548
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Human Development and Electoral Systems
Gassner, Marjorie; Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, … - EconWPA - 2005
The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062469