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Do Marital Prospects Dissuade Unmarried Fertility?
Kennes, John; Knowles, John - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013
We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in unmarried women’s share of births since 1970, and the fact that black women have lower marriage rates and higher rates of unmarried births than white women. The premise is that...
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Can technological change account for the sexual revolution?
Kennes, John; Knowles, John - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013
activity and family dynamics to calibrate the model for the 1970s, and then compute the effects of liberalizing access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851171
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An Examination of Factors Affecting Economic Status and Finances Satisfaction of Families: A Comparison of Metropolitan and Rural Areas
Günay, Gülay; Boylu, Ayfer; Bener, Özgün - In: Social Indicators Research 119 (2014) 1, pp. 211-245
Research on the family financial management behavior has gained a great impetus over 30 years. There has been a growing … voluntary (Ankara n = 1,300; Karabuk n = 1,746). Results indicated that 45.4 % of females have determined that economic decision …
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Supports for Working Families: Work and Care Policies across Welfare States
Gornick, Janet C.; Meyers, Marcia K. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 13-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037387
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NATURSCHUTZFACHLICHE OPTIMIERUNG VON GRÜNLAND MIT HILFE DER FFH-MANAGEMENTPLANUNG IN SACHSEN
Lakner, Sebastian; Kleinknecht, Uta - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die betriebliche Entscheidung für eine naturschutzfachliche Optimierung abhängig ist von der …
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Generational differences in consumption patterns in Hungary
Hofmeister-Toth, Agnes; Neulinger, Agnes - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 1, pp. 118-130
purposes (e.g. hedonic values, family and savings), thus it is essential to explore this relationship to develop an …
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The influence of product value during the process of purchase decision
Cristache, Nicoleta; Susanu, Irina; David, Sofia - In: Management and Marketing Journal 6 (2008) 1, pp. 139-144
The success of the organisational actions is ensured by the permanent dialogue that is hold with the consumer in order to know and anticipate his needs and desires, in order to satisfy them better through the offered goods and services. Found in the face of a polyvalent consumer, the marketing...
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Unraveling the mystery of sleep duration dynamics – Sleep in the objective and subjective lives of employed men and women
Michelson, William - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 11 (2014) 1, pp. 57-72
This paper addresses the place of sleep duration - objectively and subjectively - in the lives of employed men and women in Canada, based on data in Statistics Canada's 2010 General Social Survey no. 24, with an emphasis on time use. It addresses the mystery of how public opinion reflects a view...
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Matching Markets with N-Dimensional Preferences
Flanders, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R^n --and agents prefer matches that are closer to them according to a distance metric on this set (horizontal preferences). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110355
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
's characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices … variables. We find that the probability that the wife is in charge is affected by household characteristics such as family size …
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