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Teenage expectations and desires about family formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents …

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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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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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Only the lonely?: the influence of spouse on the transition to self-employment

Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

skill-spillover between the spouses within the marriage as an explanation. This paper deviates from the previous research by …

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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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