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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …

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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

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Robots, labor markets, and family behavior

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2019

increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …. We first document the differential effect of robots on the labor market opportunities of men and women. We find that in …

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Is consanguinity an impediment to child development outcomes?

Mete, Cem; Bossavie, Laurent; Giles, John; Alderman, Harold - 2019

Marriages between blood relatives - also known as consanguineous unions - are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia and most parts of South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward as...

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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018

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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...

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Marital age gaps and educational homogamy : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform in the UK

Hener, Timo; Wilson, Tanya - 2018

We investigate the impact of a compulsory schooling reform on marriage market matching using a regression discontinuity … design. Our results imply that the formally gender-neutral educational reform has asymmetric impacts for men and women, owing … to avoid marrying less qualified men. Treated men in contrast are able to marry similarly educated women without …

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Searching on campus? : marriage market effects of the student gender composition

Pestel, Nico - 2017

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …

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Divorced in a flash : the effect of the administrative divorce option on marital stability in the Netherlands

Kabátek, Jan - 2019

Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...

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Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Van de Walle, Dominique; Villar, Paola - 2017

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...

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