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Smith, James P.; Lupton, Joseph - RAND - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Householders are distinguished principally along standard demographic lines--whether they marry, divorce, separate, or become widowed. Recently, new data have become available that place far more emphasis on the...

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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage.

Loughran, David S. - RAND - 2000

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …

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Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage.

Bergstrom, T; Schoeni, R-F - RAND - 1996

This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are … positively associated with age-at-first-marriage. …

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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - RAND - 2007

fairly well understood, relatively little is known about their effects on marriage or child well-being. The authors review a … small number of studies that provide such information here. Their discussion of marriage is couched in terms of a …

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The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems

Li, Jui-Chung Allen - RAND - 2007

Social scientists and commentators disagree on how much of the association between parental divorce and child well-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well-being, measured in terms of behavior problems. The author analyzed...

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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women

Loughran, David S.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2007

effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Their estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four … percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points … unaffected by childbearing. These findings suggest that early marriage and childbearing can lead to substantial decreases in …

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Grandparent Care and Welfare: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy on Split and Three Generation Families.

Cox, Amy G.; Pebley, Anne R. - RAND - 1999

Grandparent caregiving has received increased attention in recent years, and grandparent-grandchild families have generated several public policy concerns, including whether grandparent-led families face barriers to obtaining public assistance. The authors address this question by comparing the...

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Marital Status and Earnings in Developed Countries.

Schoeni, R.F. - RAND - 1996

significant. However, there is rarely much discussion of the marriage effect. This effect is central to this study, which …

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Marital Disruption and Mortality.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - RAND - 1996

Both men and women appear to benefit from being married. This article uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors- financial well-being, living arrangements and marital history - account for this relationship.

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Mortality Risk and Consumption by Couples.

Hurd, Michael D. - RAND - 1999

The goal of this paper is to analyze a model to explain consumption by couples. It is an extension fo the model for singles by Yaari (1195), and therefore emphasizes the role of mortality risk. It also allows for what I call a "true" bequest motive, bequeathing by a couple to the next...

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