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The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2020
arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264849
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Marriage and the economy
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - In: Marriage and the economy : theory and evidence from …, (pp. 1-34). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001770015
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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; Voena, … - 2018
estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817475
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The disappearing gender gap : the impact of divorce, wages, and preferences on education choices and women’s work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516927
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With or without you : divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156104
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The impact of internet diffusion on marriage rates : evidence from the broadband market
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729501
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505849
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
capital ; consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688539
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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012
In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...
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