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Birds of a Feather : Estimating the Value of Statistical Life from Dual-Earner Families

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2019

Economists have long employed hedonic wage analysis to estimate income-fatality risk trade-offs, but some scholars have raised concerns about systematic measurement error and omitted variable bias in the empirical applications of this model. Recent studies have employed panel methods to remove...

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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

Bisin, Alberto - 2019

We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich administrative demographic data on the universe of marriages...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016 …

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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples And Surviving Spouses

Compton, Janice - 2018

Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will be alive (joint life expectancy) and the expected...

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Understanding Joint Retirement

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2018

Evidence from different sources shows that spouses' retirement decisions are correlated. Retirement policies affecting individuals in couples are therefore also likely to affect behavior of their spouses. It is therefore important to account for joint features in modeling retirement. This paper...

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Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

Dee, Thomas S. - 2005

a culture of responsibility and commitment among homosexuals. A specific implication of this claim is that "gay marriage …, which provides a framework for discussing the ways in which gay marriage might reduce (or increase) the prevalence of STI …. Then, I present reduced-form empirical evidence on whether gay marriage has actually reduced STI rates. These evaluations …

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Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions

Coile, Courtney C. - 2004

Unexpected health events such as a heart attack or new cancer diagnosis are very common for workers in their 50s and 60s. These health shocks can result in a significant loss in family income if the worker reduces labor supply, but the family can also protect itself against this loss if the...

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Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results

Wolfers, Justin - 2003

divorce rates across US states has yielded different conclusions about the effects of divorce law liberalization. I show that … within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat …

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Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce

Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2001

person's marriage ends in divorce. According to the standard economic model of marriage, the arrival of new information about …

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …

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