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Common law marriage and couple formation

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as some states abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary...

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Season of birth and marital outcomes

Oreffice, Sonia - 2014

marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

independence and potential mismatch. Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves …

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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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Robots, labor markets, and family behavior

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2019

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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

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

cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … younger and older cohorts while cohabitation only benefits younger cohort. …

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Can anyone be "The" one? : Evidence on mate selection from speed dating

Belot, Michèle (contributor); … - 2006

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - 2010

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the relationship between psychological traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and cohabiting partnerships. Changing patterns of selection into and out of relationships indicate...

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