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abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … formation and does so differently depending on education, sex ratios and parent status. CLM reduces in-couple residence, and …
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<Para ID="Par1a">J10; J12; J16 </AbstractSection> Copyright Grossbard and Vernon; licensee Springer. 2014
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Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
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Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666457
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703029
This paper studies peer group effects on marital decisions. We use data from Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). This database contains detailed information on adolescents’ high school friends as well as their marital behavior later in life. We...
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This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden’s rich administrative data sources … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System that raised the …
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estimate probabilities of marriage, both within and outside of one’s social class as functions of age. We find the overwhelming …, particularly older ones, marry commoners and slaves in significant numbers. We document significant differences in the marriage … patterns for craftsmen, as opposed to other commoners. We find strong influences of father and mother’s status on marriage …
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This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage and the effect of selection bias on marriage … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System that raised the …
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