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Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics : Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
Chen, Shuai - 2017
there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946583
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Love Conquers All But Nicotine : Spousal Peer Effects on the Decision to Quit Smoking
Palali, Ali - 2015
If two partners smoke, their quit behavior may be related through correlation in unobserved individual characteristics and common external shocks. However, there may also be a causal effect whereby the quit behavior of one partner is affected by the quit decision of the other partner. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014652
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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
van Ours, Jan C. - 2008
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725550
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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2021
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325370
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How interethnic marriages affect the educational attainment of children: evidence from a natural experiment
van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2008
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276106
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Retaining Through Training; Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo - 2011
Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127831
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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo - 2011
Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127957
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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo - 2010
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135677
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Young Immigrant Children and Their Educational Attainment
Ohinata, Asako - 2012
the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099753
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Seek and Ye Shall Find : How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Hullegie, Patrick - 2013
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081809