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Factors Affecting Divorce : A Study of the Terman Sample
Michael, Robert T. - 1976
Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which 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...
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Family Migration Decisions
Mincer, Jacob - 1977
This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks
Coile, Courtney; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Su, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor … conditions or limitations who experience a hospitalization or surgery report "leaving a job to care for home or family" in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477231
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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan - 2008
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions
Kennan, John - 2003
The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469115
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto - 2007
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465603
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Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion : The Market for Drive-in Theaters
Gil, Ricard; Houde, Jean-François; Sun, Shilong; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the role and incidence of entry preemption strategic motives on the dynamics of new industries, while providing an empirical test for entry preemption, and quantifying its impact on market structure. The empirical context is the evolution of the U.S. drive-in theater market...
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Are Consumers Affected by Durable Goods Makers' Financial Distress? The Case of Auto Manufacturers
Hortaçsu, Ali - 2010
The financial decisions of durable goods makers can impose spillovers on their consumers. Namely, durable goods provide a consumption stream that frequently depends on services provided by the manufacturer (e.g., warranties, parts, and maintenance). Manufacturer bankruptcy, or even the...
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Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
Kalinowski, Jesse; Ross, Matthew B.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
African-American motorists may adjust their driving in response to increased scrutiny by police. In daylight, when their race is more easily observable, minority motorists are the only group less likely to have fatal motor vehicle accidents. In Massachusetts and Tennessee, we find that...
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The Political-Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection
Nelson, Douglas R. - 1994
This paper examines the political process through which the U.S. auto industry pursued and ultimately received protection from Japanese competition. Following a brief review of research on the competitiveness of the industry (section II) and on the effects of protection on industry performance...
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