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Pauvreté et inégalités de droits en Afrique : une perspective “ genrée ”
Ordioni, Natacha - In: Mondes en développement 129 (2005) 1, pp. 93-106
of noted progress, customary law is weakened by the demographic trends which cross Africa. …
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Rechts- und Wirtschaftsprobleme bei der Kooperation von deutschen Unternehmen und jugoslawischen Organisationen assoziierter Arbeit
Schroeder, Friedrich-Christian (contributor);  … - 1978
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The Role of Cohabitation in Asset and Debt Accumulation During Marriage
Painter, Matthew; Vespa, Jonathan - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 33 (2012) 4, pp. 491-506
Research has found that married individuals who cohabited only once before marriage with their future spouse (i … marriage is associated with gains for financial and nonfinancial wealth, increasing home equity, and decreasing debt over time …. Spousal cohabiters begin marriage with more debt than the directly married. Conditional on education, income, and other key …
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Can’t We Just Live Together? New Evidence on the Effect of Relationship Status on Health
Kohn, Jennifer; Averett, Susan - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 35 (2014) 3, pp. 295-312
There has been a large empirical literature on the effect of marriage on health, but scant empirical evidence on the … ways. First we explicitly modeled cohabitation distinct from marriage. Second, we included lagged health in our models to …,000 adults, we found that being in a relationship is good for health, but the benefits are not unique to marriage. Our finding …
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Only the lonely? The influence of the spouse on the transition to self-employment
Özcan, Berkay - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 4, pp. 465-492
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Determinants of Long-Term Unions: Who Survives the “Seven Year Itch”?
Light, Audrey; Omori, Yoshiaki - In: Population Research and Policy Review 32 (2013) 6, pp. 851-891
Most studies of union formation focus on short-term probabilities of marrying, cohabiting, or divorcing in the next year. In this study, we take a long-term perspective by considering joint probabilities of marrying or cohabiting by certain ages and maintaining the unions for at least 8, 12, or...
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The Educational Homogamy Gap Between Married and Cohabiting Couples in Latin America
Esteve, Albert; McCaa, Robert; López, Luis - In: Population Research and Policy Review 32 (2013) 1, pp. 81-102
, uneducated sectors of society have coexisted with marriage, although to widely varying degrees from country to country. In recent …
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The Importance of Spousal Education for the Self-Rated Health of Married Adults in the United States
Brown, Dustin; Hummer, Robert; Hayward, Mark - In: Population Research and Policy Review 33 (2014) 1, pp. 127-151
education and spousal education combine to influence self-rated health within marriage. The results highlight the importance of … shared resources in marriage for producing health. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 …
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India’s ‘Missing Women’ and Men’s Sexual Risk Behavior
South, Scott; Trent, Katherine; Bose, Sunita - In: Population Research and Policy Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 777-795
Although scholars and policymakers have long been concerned with the “missing women” of India, little rigorous research has examined the consequences of India’s sex ratio imbalance for young men’s sexual risk behavior and reproductive health. We use data from the third wave of India’s...
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Normative Groups: The Rise of the Formation of the First Union Through Cohabitation in Quebec, a Comparative Approach
Laplante, Benoît - In: Population Research and Policy Review 33 (2014) 2, pp. 257-285
formation of the first union by marriage or by cohabitation for ten-year birth cohorts from 1911 to 1981 among several … the formation of the first union by marriage and its replacement by cohabitation in Quebec is typical of French …
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