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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2007
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263679
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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633544
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Paternal uncertainty and the economics of mating, marriage, and parental investment in children
Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2005
recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323030
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Substitution effects in parental investments
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009
; marriage market ; transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899970
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Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2011
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the statement: “Generally speaking, most people can be trusted.” The main explanatory variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121549
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938781
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804345
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Parents' effective time endowment and divorce : evidence from extended school days
Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206326
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Visitations and transfers in non intact households
Del Boca, Daniela; Ribero, Rocío - 1999
Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607359
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Educational assortative mating and harsh parenting in sub-Saharan Africa
Pesando, Luca Maria; De Cao, Elisabetta; La Mattina, Giulia - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366738