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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 … valued more for their ability to bear children and men are valued more for their ability to make money. Men connot reveal … 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 … couch their review of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among …

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

Li, Jui-Chung Allen - RAND - 2007

, the effect of parents' divorce substantially declines and its influence on their children's emotional well-being is not …-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well … Survey of Youth, 1979, and found that parental divorce is associated with a higher level of behavior problems in children …

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Child Mortality in Malaysia. Ethnic Differences and the Recent Decline.

Panis, C.W.A.; Lillard, L.A. - RAND - 1996

This paper is focused on two issues. Firstly, to what extent can we explain the observed mortality decline and secondly, can we attribute the observed chinese advantage to demographic or behavioural factors?

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Areal and Socioeconomic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Cameroon.

Defo, B.A. - RAND - 1996

Using data form a nationally representative sample of more than 12,000births, this study assesses infant and child mortality differences in Cameroon by residence area, mother's education, ethnicity, marital status and union type, religion and inteplay of those factorson differentials mortality.

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Potential Health Impacts of Family Planning.

DaVanzo, J. - RAND - 1995

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A Collective Labor Supply Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities by Means of Panel Data

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - RAND - 2006

The authors study labor supply of elderly couples by means of a collective model. The model allows individuals to enjoy leisure more (or less) in company of their spouse (complementarity/ externalities in leisure). Preferences and the intra-household bargaining process are identified by using...

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Anchoring and Acquiescence Bias in Measuring Assets in Households Surveys.

Hurd, Michael D. - RAND - 1999

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Study (AHEAD) are large nationally representative panel surveys of individuals aged 51-61 and 70 or over respectively at baseline and their spouses. The objective of this paper is to find evidence about anchoring and...

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