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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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 … existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468155
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The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior
Gonzalez, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233842
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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior
Luna, Libertad González; Özcan, Berkay - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772177
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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior
González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071224
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A micro simulation model of demographic development and households' economic behavior in Italy
Ando, Albert; Nicoletti-Altimari, Sergio - Banca d'Italia - 2004
The relationship between the demographic structure and the saving rate of a society is the reflection of the … of the processes generating income, social security wealth, retirement and consumption behaviour of households, and … evolution of aggregate income, saving and asset accumulation over the period 1994-2100. If fertility and mortality assumptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113518
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Meghir, Costas - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2014
allocations, can be identified from data on household consumption and labor supply. We also argue that a measure based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939079
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Intra-household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Meghir, Costas - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939080
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
of future consumption. The structural estimates also imply that the economic returns to volunteering are relatively more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252286
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Overinvestment in Marriage-Specific Capital
Donni, Olivier - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2012
over time. This is what we call "bargaining risk". To reduce this risk, the spouses may decide to over-invest in marriage … outside opportunities. This strat- egy is shown to be optimal. More suprisingly, over-investment in marriage- specific capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542032
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The Occupation, Marriage, and Fertility Choices of Women: A Life-Cycle Model
Ma, Bing - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2010
occupation, marriage and contraceptive behaviors vary significantly with their observable characteristics such as age, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490300