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Cigno, Alessandro - 2013

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...

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An equilibrium analysis of marriage, divorce and risk-sharing

Anderberg, Dan - 2001

This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While … risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing

Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002

Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification...

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …

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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses

Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022

We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...

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Abolishing the marital wage premium in Greece : employment and participation effects on minimum wage workers

Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2020

- a 10 percent mandatory top-up in the Minimum Wage (MW) for married individuals - in Greece in November 2012. Using data …

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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...

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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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Self-enforcing family rules, marriage and the (non)neutrality of public intervention

Cigno, Alessandro; Komura, Mizuki; Luporini, Annalisa - 2016

We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions. …

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

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