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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

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Marriage and Education in Australia: Decomposing the Enrolment and Human Capital Effects

Worner, Shane Mathew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

the relationship between educational attainment and age at first marriage. Theory suggests that there are two effects … analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional …

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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history....

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current economic crisis will serve only to...

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Can Anyone be 'The One'? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating

Belot, Michèle; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is …

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Social Change

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Society is characterized by the common attitudes and behaviour of its members. Such behaviour reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th Century,...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?

Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public officials. In our economy, females and males can be either high or low-skill. The number of high-skill individuals elected for public office determines the overall quality of...

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