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Can marriage institutions limit marital inefficiency? We study the pervasive custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a … "conventional" marriage, but only after accounting for selection bias. These benefits cannot be explained by endogamy, a marriage …
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marriage and divorce rates. …
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status do not arise suddenly at the time of marriage, but rather emerge gradually over time. We then propose an intertemporal …
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I report on measures of life satisfaction and emotional well-being across groups of college-educated women, based on whether they have a career, a family, both, or neither. The biggest premium to life satisfaction is associated with having a family. While there is also a life satisfaction...
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. Petersburg to Trieste, the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) reduced childbirths by approximately one-third between the fourteenth …
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I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When...
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