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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically …
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive
Kondo, Ayako - 2016
divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Way of love and after-marriage well-being : evidence from China
Li, Bowen; Zhou, Cai; Luo, Ji - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 3, pp. 394-410
Based on 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we use Ordered Probit, Instrumental Variables, and Conditional Mixed Process to analyze the effect of different ways of love on after-marriage well-being. The findings are: (i) Compared with arranged marriage, free love can significantly increase the...
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One-child policy and marriage market in China
Han, Jun; Zhao, Zhong - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 26 (2022) 1, pp. 57-84
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing … unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on the divorce). Divorce laws can regulate the grounds for divorce …
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Divorce costs and marital dissolution in a one-to-one matching framework with nontransferable utilities
Sağlam, İsmail - In: Games 4 (2013) 1, pp. 106-124
changes in divorce costs on marital dissolution. Each individual who has a nontransferable expected utility about the quality … whether to stay married or to unilaterally divorce. We show that, for any society, there exist matching environments where the … probability of the marital dissolution does not reduce divorce costs under gender-optimal matching rules. In such environments, an …
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Towards an economic approach for studying of divorces in Macedonia
Miladinov, Goran - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 1, pp. 21-32
This paper examines the impact of trends in female labor force participation on crude divorce rate in Macedonia for the … effects and the risk of divorce. In light of the changing demographics of divorce patterns, we investigate the relationship … between economic variables and divorce, controlling for a set of social and life course variables.The analyses was conducted …
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Personality and marital surplus
Lundberg, Shelly - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
and women; this is consistent with marital returns based on joint consumption. Divorce is associated with low expected …
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