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Peer Effects in Young Adults' Marital Decisions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583572
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You can’t be happier than your wife. Happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 110-130
Based on three large panel surveys, this paper shows that happiness gaps between spouses are a good predictor of future divorce. The effect of happiness gaps is asymmetric: couples are more likely to break-up when the woman is the less happy partner. De facto, divorces appear to be initiated...
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, A. L.; Coles, Melvyn - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
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/10010851358
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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959812
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
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
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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922
Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255770
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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922
Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144502
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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the … marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … relationship that has been “sealed” by marriage. The goal of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model that can explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468155
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Costly Divorce and Marriage Rates
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on … marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are … efficiently). The model seeks to reconcile the conflicting empirical evidence on the relationship between marriage rates and …
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