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Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance

Clark, Andrew E.; Lelkes, Orsolya - HAL - 2005

This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and the ensuing economic and social implications. Using two large-scale European data sets, we show that the religious enjoy higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion...

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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Reducing Non-Consensual Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Kleinbach, Russell; Babaiarova, Gazbubu - In: Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences 1 (2013) 1, pp. 50-60

Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan is the act of abducting a woman to marry her and includes actions, ranging from consensual eloping to forceful kidnapping and rape. This paper reviews the current context and research on bride kidnapping and describes a program that shows promise in preventing...

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Just a piece of paper? The effect of marriage on health

Fisher, Hayley - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 2012

unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper …, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into … marriage by instrumenting marital status using state and time variation in marriage tax penalties. After controlling for …

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Investigating children welfare inequalities in Western Africa : natural shocks, family structure and unequal access to household ressources

Guilbert, Nathalie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

marriage, a marital practice still very widespread in West Africa, on child mortality in Senegal. Finally, the third essay …

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The Truncation-by-Death Problem

McConnell, Sheena; Stuart, Elizabeth A.; Devaney, Barbara - In: Evaluation Review 32 (2008) 2, pp. 157-186

common, outcomes are not defined for some sample members. In evaluations of marriage interventions, for example, a key …

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Does Receiving an Earnings Supplement Affect Union Formation? Estimating Effects for Program Participants Using Propensity Score Matching

Harknett, Kristen - In: Evaluation Review 30 (2006) 6, pp. 741-778

This article demonstrates a novel application of propensity score matching techniques: to estimate nonexperimental impacts on program participants within the context of an experimental research design. The author examines the relationship between program participation, defined as qualifying for...

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For richer, if not for poorer? Marriage and divorce over the business cycle

Schaller, Jessamyn - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 3, pp. 1007-1033

Despite anecdotal evidence that recessions affect marriage and divorce rates, researchers do not agree about the … marriage, finding that increased unemployment rates are associated with reductions in both outcomes. The results are robust to … marriage is permanent, while the effect on divorce is temporary. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013 …

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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2013

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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Does working with spouses make teams more productive? A field experiment in India using NREGA

Munro, Alistair; Verschoor, Arjan; Dubey, Amaresh - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 506-508

In Uttar Pradesh, teams of four are engaged to dig soil under the NREGA programme. In one treatment spouses work together; in the other treatment they work in separate teams. Working with spouses is associated with significantly higher output.

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