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Old money, the nouveau riche and Brunhilde's marriage dilemma : conference paper

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable. Taking into account that she also bears...

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The lost generation in Europe? : the economic crisis and starting a family ; conference paper

Schaffner, Sandra - 2014 - Preliminary results

fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … likely to marry when they are unemployed during recession. Although we find effects on marriage we cannot observe any effects …

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence ; conference paper

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

which (i) marriage provides insurance against employment risk through the pooling of resources, and (ii) a woman does not …

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Gender differences in career progression : does the effect of children capture low work effort? ; conference paper

Kunze, Astrid - 2013

This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to climb the job ladder with focus on the effect of children. We attempt to disentangle whether children directly affect promotions, or whether the effect of children is...

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Family decision-making on international migration : conference paper

Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on international migration. Our survey reached 582 respondents with a Danish partner who was the same as before emigration. We model family decision-making in a bargaining framework and...

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Inequality and the marriage gap : conference paper

Siassi, Nawid - 2014

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality … large marriage gap: married people earn on average 27 percent more income, and they hold 34 percent more net worth. To … bequests are key to explaining the marriage gap in earnings and wealth. A policy experiment of moving from joint tax filing for …

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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...

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Contemporary perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities

Hope, Debra A. (contributor) - 2009

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Economics of the family : marriage, children, and human capital ; a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Schultz, Theodore William (contributor); … - 1974

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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples ; conference paper

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...

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