fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential shock in relation to wealth: divorce is likely to reduce wealth … consumption. To identify the relation between divorce and wealth in Germany, this study employs wealth data on the individual … histories. To account for the reversed causality between divorce and wealth, conditional difference-in-differences matching …

) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with … marriage behavior in determining fertility levels. Coale's parameters of the age pattern of first marriage ao, k and C are … first marriage, marital disruption and remarriage on fertility. Techniques for obtaining detailed information on the process …

I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the … interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age of men and women at first marriage. Within a simple … two-period overlapping generation model, I show that given an increase of the desired number of children age at marriage …

cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …"Most decisions (political, economic, and social) are made in the context of risk so the subject of human behavior … under risk is of interest to several disciplines. Social science researchers who apply experimental methods to study …

This thesis contributes to the development of theoretical and experimental approaches that extend the analysis of risk … preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … are concerned with extensions and applications of the most promising descriptive theories of behavior under risk. In these …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …