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Heckman, James J. - 2015

This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.

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Which children stabilize marriage?

Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - 2013

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …

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Who divorces whom : unilateral divorce legislation and the educational structure of marriage

Afunts, Geghetsik; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2022

There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US … divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage …

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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing

Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes …. -- Risk sharing ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …

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Female labour supply and spousal education

Papps, Kerry L. - 2010

Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours are positively related to spousal education at the time of...

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International migration of couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...

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Skill disparities and unequal family outcomes

Lundberg, Shelly - 2014

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...

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Pill power : the prequel

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - 2011

Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...

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The long-term consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2019

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing were asked - for the first time in a nationally-representative...

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