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Subjective well-being and partnership dynamics : are same-sex relationships different?
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003787158
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The role of health insurance in joint retirement among married couples
Kapur, Kanika (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387037
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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377363
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Marriage and the city
Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …
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War, marriage markets and the sex ratio at birth
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387944
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The gender longevity gap : explaining the difference between singles and couples
Felder, Stefan - 2004
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Unlucky at work, unlucky in love : employment status and marital stability
Keldenich, Carina; Lücke, Christine - 2018
This paper analyses whether employment termination has an impact on marital stability. Using discrete survival analysis techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 percent in the following period. The estimated...
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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237089
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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