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Xu, Lixin Colin - In: Man and the Economy 3 (2016) 1, pp. 65-76

Abstract Steve Cheung has been a pioneer in the research of marriage using economic approach. In this paper, I shall … describe his influence on marriage research in general and on my career in particular. Since Gary Becker had exerted a parallel …

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Marriage as a Mechanism of Internalizing Externalities: A Case of Smoking

You, Jane J. - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 12 (2021) 2, pp. 189-211

Abstract With the view of marriage as a legal institution to internalize externalities, I examine the effect of … marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … likely to smoke by 4.9% point than married individuals with stronger impact on females. The long-run impact of marriage also …

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Gender Specialization of Skill Acquisition

Ishida, Junichiro; Nosaka, Hiromi - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

gains from the marriage market. We then show that this incentive can be excessively strong and gives rise to the emergence …

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Unstable Relationships

Burdett, Kenneth; Imai, Ryoichi; Wright, Randall - In: Frontiers in Macroeconomics 1 (2004) 1, pp. 1-42

We analyze models where agents search for partners to form relationships (employment, marriage, etc.), and may or may …

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The Uniqueness of Stable Matchings

Clark, Simon - In: Contributions in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1

This paper analyses conditions on agents' preferences for a unique stable matching in models of two-sided matching with non-transferable utility. The No Crossing Condition (NCC) is sufficient for uniqueness; it is based on the notion that a person's characteristics, for example their personal...

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Abenteuertourismus in der Hochschulausbildung in Deutschland

Sand, Manuel S.; Groß, Sven - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 8 (2016) 1, pp. 73-83

research and education is lagging behind. Other countries, mostly English speaking, offer a wide range of university degrees in …

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Investigating Middle School Determinants of High School Achievement and Graduation in Three California School Districts

Kurlaender, Michal; Jackson, Jacob - In: California Journal of Politics and Policy 4 (2012) 2, pp. 1-24

Abstract This paper explores early predictors of high school graduation and success. Employing 7th grade cohorts from three large California school districts (San Francisco, Fresno, and Long Beach), we investigate the role of several key middle school academic performance measures in identifying...

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Distribution and Endogenous Growth: The Two-Class Pasinetti Model / Verteilung und endogenes Wachstum: Das Zwei-Klassen Modell von Pasinetti

Greiner, Alfred - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 3, pp. 309-321

time to education so that an efficient use of new machines is guaranteed. It is shown that there exists a unique balanced … growth path which is a saddle point. The effects of raising education on the growth rate as well as on the income … distribution between workers and capitalists are studied as well. It is demonstrated that education affects the balanced growth …

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Employment Protection: Its Effects on Different Skill Groups and on the Incentive to become Skilled

Stähler, Nikolai - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 1, pp. 41-54

matching model with two education levels in which workers decide ex-ante on their skill formation, it is shown that employment …

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Civil Society Regimes and School Choice Reforms: Evidence from Sweden and Milwaukee

Henrekson, Ebba; Andersson, Fredrik O.; Wijkström, Filip; … - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 11 (2020) 1

Abstract We examine the effects of school choice reforms implemented in the early 1990s in two different settings: Sweden and Milwaukee (WI, U.S.). We show how both the ideological and theoretical arguments for choice reform were similar in the two contexts, yet the consequences in terms of the...

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