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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021

liberal areas were much less likely to experience a birth or marriage as a minor, invested more in education, and ended up in …

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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran

Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

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Diffusion of a social norm : tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812 - 1922

Poppel, Frans van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, Evelien - 2006

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

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Sin city?

Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

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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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Entrepreneurial couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...

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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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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in … the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed … into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …

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Mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalization

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for … marriage is not the only channel. Examinations of alternative mechanisms combined with literature suggest that the legislation …

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