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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057148
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Mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalization
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021
Sexual minorities have had worse than average mental health, which may have to do with actual or perceived discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for sexual minorities. We study how this legislation affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404145
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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 … lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the … guarantor to repay outstanding residual debt after (foreclosure) sale. We argue in this paper that divorce is endogenous to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332708
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Sin city?
Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay inthe city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who marriedoutside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372526
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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 than in rural areas. Singles are thereforeprepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, themarriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343296
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349453
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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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Do childhood experiences of parental separation lead to homelessness?
Moschion, Julie; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
This paper investigates the effect of parental separation on homelessness. Previous studies are limited in their ability to isolate this effect and can only provide descriptive evidence that parental separations relate to reductions in housing quality and stability. Using a unique dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627067
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Subjective well-being and partnership dynamics : are same-sex relationships different?
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
Partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective...
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