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One-child policy and marriage market in China
Han, Jun; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has increased the leftover proportion about 1.2%, with...
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A new estimator of search duration and its application to the marriage market
Jelnov, Pavel - 2018
It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric...
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You can't be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 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/10008824341
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You can’t be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … spouses, not only because they reflect a mismatch in terms of baseline happiness, but because they matter as such. -- divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923100
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You can’t be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … spouses, not only because they reflect a mismatch in terms of baseline happiness, but because they matter as such. -- Divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923636
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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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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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You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se for a couple's risk of separation. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197853
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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Anderberg, Dan - 2021
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit
Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024
This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...
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