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As economic recessions reduce employment and wages, associated shifts in time and income constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which typically represents only about 4% of total daily physical...
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We explore the proposition that expected longevity affects retirement decisions and accumulated wealth using micro data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person's subjective probability of survival to age 75 as a proxy for their prospective...
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This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
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We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …
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marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …
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We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …
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The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the welfare state model and, especially, the family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries...
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This paper examines the impact of universal health coverage on cohabitation, marriage, and labor force participation …. Economic gains from marriage when non-labor income increases among partners. I use the expansion of non-contributory health … shows that non-contributory health insurance coverage has a significant negative effect on the probability of marriage among …
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There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...
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Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data...
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