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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2016
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986539
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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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Men's unpaid work and divorce : reassessing specialization and trade in British families
Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - In: Feminist economics 16 (2010) 2, pp. 1-26
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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities : Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Bono, Emilia Del - 2021
This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation decisions. Our results show that individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319029
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Parental Child Care in Single Parent, Cohabiting, and Married Couple Families : Time Diary Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Ribar, David; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2006
This study uses time diary data from the 2003 American Time Use Survey and the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2000 to examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children. Time spent in market work, in child care as a primary activity, and in child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059666
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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010
This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981978
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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics : Evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316196
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Partnership dissolution : how does it affect income, employment and well-being?
Brewer, Mike; Nandi, Alita - 2014
We assess comprehensively how incomes, employment, housing, mental health and life satisfaction change following a partnership dissolution, using data from 18 waves of BHPS. We confirm that women and children see living standards decline by more than men, on average, upon separation, but find...
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Parental Divorce and Students' Performance : Evidence Form Longitudinal Data
Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2006
parental divorce during adolescence has an adverse impact on students' performance on standardized tests. To account for the … potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ double and triple differences models that rely on observing teenagers from … intact and divorced backgrounds before and after the divorce occurs. We find that parental divorce does not negatively affect …
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