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How cohabitation, marriage, separation and divorce influence BMI : a prospective panel study

Mata, Jutta; Richter, David; Schneider, Thorsten; … - 2018

in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …

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Gender differences in the consequences of divorce : a multiple-outcome comparison of former spouses

Leopold, Thomas - 2016

This study examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce for multiple measures of psychological, economic, and domestic well-being. I used household panel data from the German SOEP, retaining the link between initially married couples (N = 755) to compare both spouses over a period...

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Gendered wealth losses after dissolution of cohabitation but not marriage in Germany

Boertien, Diederik; Lersch, Philipp M. - 2019

Objective: To document gender differences in how economic wealth changes following the dissolution of marriage and … a more unequal division of wealth following the dissolution of cohabitation as compared to marriage. Method: The … women after the dissolution of marriage. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is related to losses in wealth for women, but …

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Would you marry me? : the effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time

El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Moreau, Nicolas - 2007

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

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Marital risk, family insurance, and public policy

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2009

The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals...

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