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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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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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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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Subjective well-being and partnership dynamics : are same-sex relationships different?

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and …

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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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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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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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