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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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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

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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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Common law marriage and male/female convergence in labor supply and time use

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

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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 … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

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Moms' time - married or not

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020

Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time - paid work and household...

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Household behavior and the marriage market

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

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Are intra-household allocations policy neutral? : theory and empirical evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2011

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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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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What will you do if i say "i do"? : the effect of the sex ratio on time use within Taiwanese married couples

Chang, Simon; Connelly, Rachel; Ma, Ping - 2015

is also consistent with the theory that marriage market participants' choices are affected by the prevailing sex ratio. …

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