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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600904
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474603
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Wo(men) at work? The impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours
Triebe, Doreen - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329609
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Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time
Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600658
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In sickness and in health? Health shocks and relationship breakdown: Empirical evidence from Germany
Bünnings, Christian; Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; … - 2020
From an economic perspective, marriage and long-term partnership can be seen as a risk-pooling device. This informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320265
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status: Evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500139
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Would You Marry Me?: The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time
Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017468
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Wo(men) at Work?: The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earning on Women's Work Hours
Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787006
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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status: Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss
Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199852
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Consumption-savings decisions under upward looking comparisons: Evidence from Germany, 2002-2011
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013
We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to keeping up with the Joneses-behavior. Using annual household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the causal effect of changes in reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all households who are perceived to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322838