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This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
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The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
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cohabitation among young adults, these results offer important insights into the long-term economic outcomes associated with … premarital cohabitation. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 …
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effect of cohabitation on health, although cohabitation is increasingly common. We contributed to this literature in three … ways. First we explicitly modeled cohabitation distinct from marriage. Second, we included lagged health in our models to … that cohabitation is as beneficial as marriage for health was good news for health policy as changing social norms and …
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find that unions entered via cohabitation contribute significantly to the likelihood of experiencing a long-term union, and …
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The explosive expansion of non-marital cohabitation in Latin America since the 1970s has led to the narrowing of the … research to a range of developing countries, where since early colonial times, traditional forms of cohabitation among the poor … decades, cohabitation is emerging in all sectors of society. We find that among married couples, educational homogamy …
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