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Căsătoria în nord-vestul Transilvaniei (a doua jumătate a secolului XIX - începutul secolului XX). Condiţionări exterioare şi strategii maritale
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-confessional marriages and hence we will deduce the interethnic ones). These constraints have their origin in the family, Church and … family life management. The State acknowledged to the Church the right to be in charge with marrying people, with separating … the church law. The modern State became lay, its institutions becoming better organised. In this context, the family …
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
first analysis of the behavioral response of individuals in longer marriages to the 2008 reform. Its approach to identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802026
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422608
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Is marriage as good as a contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227229
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2018
their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907027
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2019
their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870326
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Divorced in a flash : the effect of the administrative divorce option on marital stability in the Netherlands
Kabátek, Jan - 2019
their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979175
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The Intergenerational Effects of Marital Transfers : Evidence from India
Bhat, Bilal; Thakur, Sounak - 2022
We study the intergenerational effects of marital transfers in India. We use exogenous variation in dowry amounts induced by stronger anti-dowry laws introduced in 1985. The new legal regime reduced dowries substantially and increased domestic violence against women. We find that children born...
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901742