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Culture-based rejection of taboo-infringing imports
Brice, William D.; Chu, Edward; Brice, Anastasiya - In: International journal of management and economics 53 (2017) 3, pp. 67-81
This empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and...
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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
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Transitions from cohabitation : a competing risk analysis
Shaw, Tara Shankar - In: Review of market integration 3 (2011) 2, pp. 121-159
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Making big decisions : the impact of moves on marriage among U.S. Army personnel
Carter, Susan Payne; Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2018
marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …
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Separate and unequal : the effect of unequal access to employment-based health insurance on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M. V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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Product categories as judgment devices : the moral awakening of the investment industry
Arjaliès, Diane-Laure; Durand, Rodolphe - 2018
Product categories are more than classification devices that organize markets; when reflecting market actors' purposes, they are also judgment devices. Taking stock of the literature on product categories and drawing on the distinction between the faculties of knowing and judging, we elaborate a...
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using … the history of the liberalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. Because the approval of same-sex marriage … allows homosexuals access to legal rights and social benefits, marriage becomes more attractive relative to singlehood or …
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329207
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Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis
Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2007
more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …
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