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A simple solution to the problem of independence of irrelevant alternatives in Choo and Siow marriage market model

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

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Marital risk, family insurance, and public policy

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2009

The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals...

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Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi

Haenni, Simon; Lichand, Guilherme - 2021 - Revised version

: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less … visible alternative to child marriage for parents who are only willing to engage in it out of social image concerns. One year … villages where child marriage was most prevalent at baseline, and (2) in those villages, parents who do not marry off their …

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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...

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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017

In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...

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How Can Preferences for Same-Trait Marriage Increase Investment in Education?

Hakak, Lorena - 2020

I model how agents' marriage decisions and schooling investments relate to cultural and religious intragroup … intergenerational transmission of cultural traits to children through marriage. In addition, the benefit of a higher level of education …

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A Simple Solution to the Problem of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in Choo and Siow Marriage Market Model

Gutierrez, Federico - 2019

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864378

Family Values and the Value of Families : Theory and Evidence of Marriage as an Institution

Murphy, Russell D. - 2000

parents are not has increased. This increase is consistent with an asymmetric information model of marriage (Murphy 1999). The …

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A Dynamic and Stochastic Analysis of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 1999

, he has shown that a marrying agent's optimal policy depends only on the properties of the current marriage proposal …, independent of whether there is recall of earlier marriage proposals. In this paper, I continue this line of inquiry. I examine …

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Love and Taxes – And Matching Institutions

Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2011

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family … the high-income earner may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by the marriage. Redistributive income …. Redistributive taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage …

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