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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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after accounting for the impact of child penalties. While 2 ⁄3 of the total effect of cohabitation is due to partnered women … having higher fertility than unpartnered women, an income penalty of 5% is directly due to cohabitation, and not due to … children. Cohabitation also reduces women's propensity to work evenings and weekends, and to hold a second job. The effects are …
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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 labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
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discrimination against unmarried couples, a couple will marry only if marriage serves as a commitment device which facilitates …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …
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on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …
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forms such as civil unions and cohabitation allows couples to choose alternatives to marriage, which in turn weakens the … benefits of marriage. Lower dependency allows greater voice, and lowers the cost of exiting a marriage. The diversity of family … institution of marriage. Alternatively, the divorce rate in Japan is low compared to the U.S. and Europe because dependency …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703029
This paper studies peer group effects on marital decisions. We use data from Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). This database contains detailed information on adolescents’ high school friends as well as their marital behavior later in life. We...
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-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with …In Western Europe and the US, the last couple of decades have witnessed a large increase in the new forms of marriages …, usually called quasi-marriages, like cohabitation. Today in many European countries more than 15% of all couples are …
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Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …
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