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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation

Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples

Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010

This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...

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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples

Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010

liabilities with individual psychological well-being. -- Savings ; investments ; debts ; marriage ; cohabitation ; gender ; intra …

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Are intra-household allocations policy neutral? : theory and empirical evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2011

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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Common law marriage and couple formation

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-26

women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

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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 are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …

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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 marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058498

Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...

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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, A. L.; Coles, Melvyn - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation

Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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