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Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest is Empty

d'Albis, Hippolyte; Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena - 2022

and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family …

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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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Marriage Versus Cohabitation : How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Who Divorces Whom : Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage

Afunts, Geghetsik; Jurajda, Stepan - 2023

divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage … affect the educational structure of marriage: it made generally unstable hypogamous couples (women marrying less educated …

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Endogenous Gender-Based Discrimination in a Model of Simultaneous Frictional Labor and Marriage Markets

Bonilla, Roberto; Masters, Adrian - 2023

and marriage markets can result in a "gendered" equilibrium which is consistent with observed empirical regularities: men … earn more than women, and their attachment to the labor market is stronger. The equilibrium also exhibits a marriage wage …

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The Optimal Reservation Utility in Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2009

decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent’s reservation utility as …

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Poverty and Choice of Marital Status : A Self-Selection Model

Rodgers, Joan R. - 2000

Over the last few decades in the United States, the poverty rate for female-headed families has been about five times the poverty rate for other family types. This paper addresses the question of why, in general, female-headed families are so much poorer than other families. Recognizing that...

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Money and Marriage : Implications of Wage Inequality on Marriage Outcomes

Liu, Jing - 2009

This paper explains a stylized fact about the correlation between rising wage inequality and declining marriage rates … equilibrium in which the whole marriage market is divided into distinct groups and only people in the same group will marry each … other. Using IPUMS data from 1970 to 2000, our estimates show that in past decades the U.S. marriage market experienced a …

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