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Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...
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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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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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more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …
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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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Partnered individuals live longer, healthier lives. In explaining this association, processes involving both social causation (in which partnership provides health benefits to individuals) and health selection (in which those who find partners were healthier than those who do not) have been...
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marriage has important positive consequences for health habits, recent work emphasizes that intimate ties can also deter from … promoted in marriage. Moreover, little research explores how unhealthy habits are promoted in intimate ties other than marriage …
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