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Self-enforcing family rules, marriage and the (non)neutrality of public intervention
Cigno, Alessandro; Komura, Mizuki; Luporini, Annalisa - 2016
We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals reproduce by cell separation, to one where individuals...
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Why wait? : a century of education, marriage timing and gender roles
Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2016
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Why wait? : A century of education, marriage timing and gender roles
Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2016
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …
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Whither the marrige tax?
Alm, James; Leguizamon, J. Sebastian - In: National tax journal 68 (2015) 2, pp. 251-280
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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing
Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002
marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …
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Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2013
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Commitments and the marital match: the effect of alimony reform on assortative matching
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …
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Charitable giving in married couples : untangling the effects of education and income on spouses' giving
Mesch, Debra J.; Osili, Una Okonkwo; Dale, Elizabeth J.; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 51 (2022) 2, pp. 444-458
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The length of schooling and the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 68 (2022) 1, pp. 1-45
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