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Financial implications of relationship breakdown : does marriage matter?
Fisher, Hayley; Low, Hamish - 2012
In raw data in the UK, the income loss on separation for women who were cohabiting is less than the loss for those who were married. Cohabitees lose less even after matching on observable characteristics including age and children. This difference is not explained by differences in access to...
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation in a household can be supported by self interest....
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Common law marriage and couple formation
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 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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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...
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What a difference a definition makes : mismatches in partner markets across three decades in Denmark
Simonsen, Emil A. L.; Fallesen, Peter - 2022
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Wage premium and wage penalty in marriage versus cohabitation
Bonnet, Carole; Jeandidier, Bruno; Solaz, Anne - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 745-775
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From never partnered to serial cohabitors : union trajectories to childlessness
Jalovaara, Marika; Fasang, Anette Eva - 2017
high rates of separation and unmarried cohabitation. Objective: To situate (biological) childlessness in longitudinal … cohabitation near age 40; 2) Briefly Cohabited (25%), characterized by mostly living single after a brief cohabitation spell; 3 …) Cohabitors, Often Serial (19%), marked by typically discontinuous cohabitation; and 4) Married (11%). The Never-Partnered cluster …
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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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