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a widening and possibly a subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …
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used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample …
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This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...
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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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Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …. This paper uses a model of female marital search to demonstrate why these two trends could be related. Elementary job … search theory, under risk-neutrality, predicts search duration will increase given a mean preserving spread in the …
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positively associated with age-at-first-marriage. …This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are … for evaluating females as spouses is revealed at a younger age. The model predicts that the income of males will be …
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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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