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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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Support Networks within the Family As a Public Good Problem.

Schoeni, Robert F. - RAND - 2000

his paper examines altruism and exchange models of familial relationships. It first examines the predictions of these models when there are more than two family members, demonstrating that altruism with multiple altruists is similar to the classic public good model. The paper also examines...

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Labor Market Uncertainty and Private Sector Labor Supply in Russia

Stillman, Steven - RAND - 2000

decrease in private sector earnings variability is estimated to increase the likelihood of private sector employment for …

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Using International Micro Data to Learn about Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance

Hurd, Michael D.; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Rohwedder, Susann - RAND - 2008

In this paper the authors examine the scope of cross-country variation in institutions related to social insurance. Building on the variation they find they assess the value of new micro data that is comparable across countries to help identify key parameters of individual behavior. They present...

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Empirical Modeling of Household and Family Decisions.

Strauss, J.; Thomas, D. - RAND - 1995

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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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