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Rerum Novarum, the papal encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, has had a major impact on Catholic thinking. Issued in 1891 it immediately received much public attention. This was especially the case in the United States where it was seen as the response re-affirming the sanctity of private property long...
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effects. Design/methodology/approach It applies the law in context scholarship to the question of land privatisation. Findings … housing quality are striking. Moreover, although other public law restraints on the state-owned property are often limited …
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The objectives of this article was to understand the causes, effects and measures to reduce child marriages in rural Zimbabwe. Child marriages have serious social, economic, health and political implications on young girls and their communities. Young girls are also robbed of their locally and...
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Abstract With the view of marriage as a legal institution to internalize externalities, I examine the effect of … marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … likely to smoke by 4.9% point than married individuals with stronger impact on females. The long-run impact of marriage also …
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gains from the marriage market. We then show that this incentive can be excessively strong and gives rise to the emergence …
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We analyze models where agents search for partners to form relationships (employment, marriage, etc.), and may or may …
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This paper analyses conditions on agents' preferences for a unique stable matching in models of two-sided matching with non-transferable utility. The No Crossing Condition (NCC) is sufficient for uniqueness; it is based on the notion that a person's characteristics, for example their personal...
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Abstract Steve Cheung has been a pioneer in the research of marriage using economic approach. In this paper, I shall … describe his influence on marriage research in general and on my career in particular. Since Gary Becker had exerted a parallel …
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positive and negative mood crossover is reciprocated among individuals in a dual‐career marriage context. This implies that the …
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“document work” is constructed in this setting. Design/methodology/approach – Using Law and Lynch's study of birdwatching guides …, almost universally the bride, were analyzed. Findings – As Law and Lynch found, part of a novice's apprenticeship requires …
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