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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
Autor, David H. - 2017
There is no evaluation of the consequences of Disability Insurance (DI) receipt that captures the effects on households' net income and consumption expenditure, family labor supply, or benefits from other programs. Combining detailed register data from Norway with an instrumental variables...
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The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates
Lee, Jin Young - 2011
allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2011
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017
significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net
Low, Hamish - 2018
(partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and … estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …
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Technology and the Changing Family : a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2012
educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …
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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 … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form …
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Factors Affecting Divorce : a Study of the Terman Sample
Michael, Robert T. - 2021
focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a … brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration …
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Family Status Transitions, Latent Health, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Assets
Poterba, James M. - 2010
to family status transitions. For both single individuals and married couples who do not experience a death or divorce … transition, either a death or a divorce, exhibit much slower asset growth and often experience a large decline in asset values at …
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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2016
The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates. There are two broad sets of …
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