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Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2013
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women 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 adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals reproduce by cell separation, to one where individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488072
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Land inequality, eduction, and marriage : empirical evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016
inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536183
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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014
marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418005
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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing
Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002
marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409730
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Male wage inequality and characteristics of "early mover" marriages
Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2022
-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938963
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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...
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Marriage and divorce : the role of labor market institutions
Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263729
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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653755
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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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