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A Joint Model of Marital Childbearing and Marital Disruption.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - RAND - 1994

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Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...

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What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability

Kippen, Rebecca; Chapman, Bruce; Yu, Peng - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

household income; husband’s unemployment and perceived financial stress; young age at marriage; separation of parents; second …-plus marriage; and resident children born before marriage. …

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'It's Made a Huge Difference': Recognition, Rights and the Personal Significance of Civil Partnership

Shipman, Beccy; Smart, Carol - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 1

In this paper we map briefly some of the arguments around the meaning and significance of the introduction of Civil Partnership in England and Wales, and in this way show how contested these meanings are with some groups profoundly against this legal reform and others supporting it, but for a...

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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as well...

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Do Children Stabilize Marriages?

Svarer, Michael; Verner, Mette - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus

not have a positive effect on marriage duration. …

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Marriage in North-Western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century). External Conditionings and Marital Strategies

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Marriage in North-Western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century). External … is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The major events in the family life, such as baptism, marriage … traditional environment; here the social constraints are powerful and a mixed marriage is difficult to be accepted. If we research …

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When the first union comes to an end: Is it less distressing if we were cohabiting?

Patrício Tavares, Lara; Aassve, Arnstein - "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social … - 2011

Using the British Household Panel Survey this paper explores the extent to which marital and cohabiting unions differ with respect to the short term effects of union dissolution on psychological distress. We test the hypothesis that spouses experience larger negative effects but the results show...

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Deadbeat Dads

Beauchamp, Andrew; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey T.; Seitz, Shannon - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2014

Why do some men father children outside of marriage but not provide support? Why are some single women willing to have … children outside of marriage when they receive little or no support from unmarried fathers? Why is this behavior especially … common among blacks? To shed light on these questions, we develop and estimate a dynamic equilibrium model of marriage …

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the...

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