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Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …
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Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …
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divorce. I model the marital decisions of couples as a sequential game, in which the gain to marriage increases with household … bargaining power within marriage. This in turn affects the equilibrium marital outcomes. I use the variation in the timing of the … passage of the homemaking provision to identify its effect on marriage. I find that the provision substantially increases …
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Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...
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We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
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Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …
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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 …
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for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements …
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for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements …
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for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements …
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