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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People

Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...

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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women

Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...

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Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes

Oreffice, Sonia - 2014

born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …

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Economic Gradients in Social Health in Britain

Kung, Claryn S. J.; Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 2021

Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite the substantial literature on loneliness, there is...

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Your conscience you must keep, or it must be kept for you

Rai, Birendra K. - 2007

Parents in several cultures 'discipline' their daughters to inculcate the supposedly feminine virtues. The measures taken by parents range from the benign to the brutal across societies. The paper formalizes the idea that this process can be understood as an equilibrium outcome of a signaling...

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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004

within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

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The role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States: a review of the recent literature

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2008

This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...

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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk

Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Gervais, Martin - 2009

We document that home ownership of households with heads aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...

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Weather Shocks, Age of Marriage and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2017

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...

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