age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … duration model developed in this paper is a useful tool when analyzing a wide-range of single-spell durations where individual …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility. …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …

specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that … beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as … cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. …