This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...

This paper focuses upon the unfolding lives of Overseas Performing Artists and Japanese wives from a barangay in Pangasinan. Their life stories, as told during our interviews conducted in the Philippines and in Japan between 1994 and 2004, were enhanced with information on their families...

Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...

Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman's attitudes towards the role of females in the labor market and the attitudes of her children. We also examine whether...

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...

Spanish Abstract: La planeación financiera personal permite realizar procesos administrativos, organizados y sistemáticos para que un individuo, una familia u organización realice eficiente y eficazmente la optimización de los recursos económicos en el manejo de sus finanzas. El ahorro...

We use a simple structural matching model with unobserved heterogeneity to produce counterfactual marriage patterns of two kinds: counterfactuals that hold the match surplus constant across markets and counterfactuals that hold the joint utility constant. These counterfactuals allow us to...

We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings rates of the young are elevated relative to the middle-aged, despite rising individual life-cycle incomes. We show that inter-generational co-residence masks the true life-cycle...

Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors may yield misleading inference. We generalize the model and provide an appropriate test procedure...

This paper comments on a paper written by Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon, titled ‘A Diamond is Forever' and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration, and makes suggestions for implementing the results of their study