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Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty

Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …

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You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Stichnoth, Holger; Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia - 2010

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

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Relative income, network interactions and social stigma

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2010

on blood donation than community-specific inequality. …

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Mortality and survivors' consumption

Grimm, Michael - 2006

The literature suggests that in developing countries illness shocks at the household level can have a negative and severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a...

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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys

de Laiglesia, Juan R.; Morrisson, Christian - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures differ greatly across countries and are very...

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Productive inefficiency in patriarchal family farms: evidence from Mali

Goetghebuer, Tatiana - 2011

In Mali, there exist various farm-cum-family structures, so that agricultural production occurs on plots controlled by different members of the household. In this paper, we want to lay emphasis on the under-researched differentials between collective and individual plots (attended by male or...

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Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Maternal Employment, Fertility and Well-Being: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for first-time mothers on welfare. A major goal of the program is to increase the participants economic self-sufficiency. I use administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency and...

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Weight Loss and Sexual Activity in adult Obese Individuals: Establishing a Causal Link

Tauchmann, Harald; Reichert, Arndt Rüdiger; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015

Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a relationship between weight change and sexual activity in obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is likely to...

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Divorce and the birth control pill

Marcen, Miriam - 2013

This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...

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