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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128345
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075792
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - CESifo - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165504
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165653
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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Bargaining Around the Hearth
Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine allocations among them. More specifically, Ellickson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777404
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480825
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Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (1996) 4, pp. 139-158
recent years, this model has been challenged by game-theoretic models of marriage that do not impose 'pooling' and are … their implications for distribution within marriage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005820100
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479350
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473191