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United But (Un-)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
Cremer, Helmuth - 2012
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096466
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United but (un-)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674949
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United but (un)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683129
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United but (un-)equal: Human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291461
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United but (un)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762566
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United but (un)equal : human capital, probability of divorce, and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 195-217
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470399
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055998
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057897
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United but (un)equal: Human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290758
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United but (Un)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598510