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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status: Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

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Wo(men) at Work?: The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earning on Women's Work Hours

Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...

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Would You Marry Me?: The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time

Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

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Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...

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Consumption-Savings Decisions under Upward Looking Comparisons: Evidence from Germany, 2002-2011

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to "keeping up with the Joneses"-behavior. Using annual household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the causal effect of changes in reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all households who are perceived...

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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical...

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Maternity Leave in the Context of Couples: The Impact of Both Partners' Characteristics and Employment Experiences on Mothers' Re-entry into the Labour Market

Hoherz, Stefanie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This research examines re-entry into the labour force for mothers after maternity leave. The empirical analysis focuses on the first twenty-two years of post-reunification Germany, using proportional hazards models. Results show that the re-entry into part-time employment is primarily affected...

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