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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior

González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …

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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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More on Marriage, Fertility, and the Distribution of Income.

Greenwood, J.; Guner, N.; Knkwles, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is … captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … are free to accept or reject marriage proposals. Married agents make their decisions through bargaining about work, and …

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Modernisation and son preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household survey data. We test whether higher levels of satisfaction are associated with greater economic well-being. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the data. Unhappiness is...

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The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth: evidence from the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we examine how the distribution of wealth has been changing in UK over the period 1995 to 2005 and how the sum of inheritance received between 1996-2004 contributed to the observed trends in wealth accumulation and wealth inequality. Using data from the British Household Panel...

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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting

Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...

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Recent trends in the size and the distribution of inherited wealth in the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we document the evolution of the annual flow of inheritances in the UK during the period 1984-2005 and provide estimates for the overall magnitude and the distribution of inherited wealth. Our results indicate that the period under examination the annual flow of inheritance...

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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