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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update

Bohn, Henning - 2003

Yes, subject to concerns about Medicare inefficiencies and potentially self-confirming skepticism. The U.S. social security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Financing retirement in the European Union

Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002

This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding the major developments that affect the pension...

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...

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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...

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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 …

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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. …

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