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Marriage and divorce : the role of labor market institutions
Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …
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More than just friends? : school peers and adult interracial relationships
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...
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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057148
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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability
Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058498
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First union formation among the children of immigrants in Norway : timing and choice of union type
Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug - 2019
Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either native-born or who immigrated as children or teens (N=1,013,734), the current study investigated timing of first co-residential union and choice of union type in the period 2005 through 2018. Descriptive results...
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap
Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...
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The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using the history of the liberalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. Because the approval of same-sex marriage allows homosexuals access to legal rights and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139860
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386