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Uncommitted couples : some efficiency and policy implications of marital bargaining
Aura, Saku - 2002
properties of different divorce asset-division regimes are examined. A stylized common-law regime is shown to lead to fully …
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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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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and … having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …
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Private protection against crime when property value is private information
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2012
This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private information. Within a framework in which potential criminals can choose between various crime opportunities, we establish that decentralized decision-making by potential victims may...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227223
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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...
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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 …
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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