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Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021

of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish … couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

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Back to Baseline in Britain : Adaptation in the BHPS

Clark, Andrew - 2012

We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete, whereas this is not the case for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar...

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Return Migration of Foreign Students

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2013

Using unique administrative micro panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in The Netherlands. The life course experiences of these students in the host, both on the labour market and in marriage formation, impact their decision...

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - 2013

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction : A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis

Clark, Andrew - 2007

We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...

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Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education

Chen, Yen‐Chien; Fan, Elliott; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2021

We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 significantly...

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Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2016

This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...

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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britainon Couples: Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...

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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...

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