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This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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In this paper we use household survey data to study the determinants of children’s educational achievement in Uruguay. As an indicator of this educational achievement, we build the “educational gap” which is the difference between expected years of schooling of a child and actual years of...
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This paper examines the impact of universal health coverage on cohabitation, marriage, and labor force participation … poor and low educated males and females, and a positive effect on the probability of cohabitation. SP, however, has no …
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research has focused on nonmarital cohabitation. This paper presents a multinomial logit model of an American woman's major … cohabitation options: not cohabiting, cohabiting with a spouse and possibly others, or cohabiting with others but not with a spouse …. Because cohabitation has the possibility of alleviating poor women's need for public assistance, I investigate the connection …
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existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …
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This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on …
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