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How cohabitation, marriage, separation and divorce influence BMI : a prospective panel study

Mata, Jutta; Richter, David; Schneider, Thorsten; … - 2018

in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - 2010

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples : are there spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...

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You can't be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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Does intermarriage pay off? : a panel data analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

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Behind the curtain : the within-household sharing of income

Elsas, Susanne - 2011

The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...

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The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses : evidence from plant closures in Germany

Marcus, Jan - 2012

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous...

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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences

Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...

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Trade shocks, fertility, and marital behavior

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2021

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in sectors that were more affected by import competition from Eastern Europe and suffered worse...

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