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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013

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

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Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment

Iyigun, Murat - 2009

cohabitation. An excess supply of men who prefer marriage not only reduces the marriage incentives of men and raises those of women …

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The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham - 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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Divorce : What Does Learning Have to Do with it?

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2015

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from...

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Making Big Decisions : The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among U.S. Army Personnel

Carter, Susan - 2018

We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...

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Can Anyone Be 'the' One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating

Belot, Michèle - 2011

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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In Sickness and in Health : Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

Gathmann, Christina - 2020

We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job displacement increases the mortality risk for both the man and his partner. For...

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Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage

Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …

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Field-of-Study Homogamy

Bicakova, Alena - 2016

This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study – a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...

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Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics : Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?

Chen, Shuai - 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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