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The Retirement Prospects of Divorced Women

Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015

For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women are more likely to be poor than older widows, and historical divorce and remarriage trends suggest that in the future a larger share of retired women will be divorced. This...

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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage : A Beckerian Approach

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2014

that this analysis has been expanded and tested. Becker also used D&S analysis to develop his argument that polygyny … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

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But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

Rose, Elaina - 2014

Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...

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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2014

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as some states abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary...

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Married Women's Projected Retirement Benefits : An Update

Iams, Howard - 2016

This Note uses the latest version of the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term microsimulation model to updated earlier projections of Social Security retirement benefits for married women. Changes in women's earnings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first...

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Class, Politics, Gender and the Marriage Divide in the United States

Cahn, Naomi - 2015

In this article we use the idea of the 'marriage divide' to describe the transformation of the family to meet the needs of the information economy and the divisions that the transformation has created. In doing so, we emphasize three types of 'marriage divides' in the United States: class and...

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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2015

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...

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Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes : Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Mosca, Irene - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment decisions of women is used to investigate this relationship....

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Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce

Kabatek, Jan - 2017

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18...

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Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce

Kabatek, Jan - 2017

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946579