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To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … changes in the value of marriage due to a housing price shock have an asymmetric impact on individual welfare both across …
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marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …
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marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …
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The paper analyzes the effect of a reform granting alimony rights to cohabiting couples in Canada, exploiting the fact that each province extended these rights in different years and required different cohabitation length. A theoretical analysis, based on a collective household model with a...
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work for leisure and personal time. We find no effects for men. The fact that the reforms reduced fertility only among …
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marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …
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marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …
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Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of marriage breakdown rates. We use this …
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of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …
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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...
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