In many countries of Asia, the Middle-East and Africa the average age at marriage of both men and women has been rising significantly, while the difference between the average marriage age of men and women has been declining. Moreover, marriage patterns display a form of dualism: educated men...

Diffuse priors lead to pathological posterior behaviour when used in Bayesian analyses of Simultaneous Equation Models (SEMs). This results from the local nonidentification of certain parameters in SEMs. When this, a priori known, feature is not captured appropriately, and a posteriori favour...

We propose methods to test for common deterministic seasonality, while allowing for possible seasonal unit roots. For this purpose, we consider panel methods, where we allow for individualand for common dynamics. To decide on the presence of seasonal unit roots, we introduce a decision-based...