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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …
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Love your leave, don't leave your love! : paid parental leave and children's living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...
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Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2012
We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we...
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2011
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation in a household can be supported by self interest....
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Leaving home with a partner
Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; … - 2015
Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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Marriage and the city
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2005
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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Effects of housing transfer taxes on household mobility
Eerola, Essi; Harjunen, Oskari; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; … - 2019
Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare losses found in several quasi-experimental studies. Research designs used in this prior literature are prone to attenuation bias due to spillovers from mobility or trading across control and...
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Adolescents on the road : a case study of determinants of risky behaviors
Elba, Filippo; Cosci, Fiammetta; Pettini, Anna; … - 2018
The 2016 report of the European Transport Safety Council claims that EU safety progress has come to a standstill. This study aims at deepening the knowledge of factors that influence adolescents’ risky behavior on the road. Bayesian Networks offer a promising new way to looking at the issue....
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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?
Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023
quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the … dimensions: income by sector of activity, the nature of the contract, regularity of employment, job satisfaction and length of …
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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