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Betting the house : how assets influence marriage selection, marital stability, and child investments

Lafortune, Jeanne; Low, Corinne - 2017

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage. We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children …

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Formal child care and family structure : theory and evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 699-724

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market …

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Evolution of the family: theory and implications for economics

Alger, Ingela; Cox, Donald - 2020

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Marriage, quarrels, and lovemaking

Silva, Sergio da; Cordeiro, Werley - In: Studies in microeconomics 11 (2023) 3, pp. 382-388

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Marriage, fertility, and labor force participation of Thai women : an econometric study

Maurer, Kenneth; Ratajczak, Rosalinda; Schultz, T. Paul - 1973

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Marriage matters spousal similarity in life satisfaction

Schimmack, Ulrich (contributor); Lucas, Richard (contributor) - 2006

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were based on married couples (N = 847) in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Concurrent spousal similarity was considerably higher than oneyear retest similarity, revealing...