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Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

In this study we pose two broad questions: what are the characteristics ofthe currently divorced; and who divorces? Divorce is used as an inclusiveterm to include separations from marriages and from cohabiting unions.In the first part data from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe...

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to … allows caste to remaina persistent feature of the Indian marriage market.[...] …

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Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 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 Decisionsin Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 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, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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