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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021
This paper examines the effect of the introduction of a 1982 maternity benefit program on childbearing, employment and marital stability in the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program included one year of partially paid leave and a small cash payment at birth. We...
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A new estimator of search duration and its application to the marriage market
Jelnov, Pavel - 2018
It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845514
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You can’t be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … spouses, not only because they reflect a mismatch in terms of baseline happiness, but because they matter as such. -- divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923100
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You can’t be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … spouses, not only because they reflect a mismatch in terms of baseline happiness, but because they matter as such. -- Divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923636
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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife - Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148706
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You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se for a couple's risk of separation. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197853
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You can't be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824341
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Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality
Han, Seungjin; Bjerk, David - 2008
We develop a model of the labor market where firms incur an adjustment cost when one of their workers quits, and males and females form households assortatively by skill. We show how this environment can lead to an economy where females earn less and drop out more frequently than equally skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214402
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The Effect of Marital Stability on the Labor Supply Response to Changes in Wage Rates and Taxes
Zhang, Yonghui - 2014
This paper uses PSID data to analyze the effect of marital stability on the elasticity of labor supply in a life cycle setting. I estimate the Frisch elasticity or the intertemporal elasticity of substitution of the labor supply focusing on the impact of marriage. I find clear evidence that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045698