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Old money, the nouveau riche and Brunhilde's marriage dilemma : conference paper

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable. Taking into account that she also bears...

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Population genetics and economic growth

Zak, Paul J.; Park, Kwang Woo - 2000 - This version June 3, 2000

-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner … that institutional factors significantly impact economic performance by affecting marriage, family size, and the …

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The Rule of One-Third

Geddes, Raymond Richard; Zak, Paul J. - 2000

divorce. We document the historical ubiquity of this legal construct and show that without a wife's residual claim on her …

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Financial implications of relationship breakdown : does marriage matter?

Fisher, Hayley; Low, Hamish - 2012

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016

, sophisticated couples - but not naive ones - may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted … results to interpret several stylized facts about marriage and divorce that cannot be straightforwardly reconciled with …

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Family-Specific Investments and Divorce : A Theory of Dynamically Inconsistent Household Behavior

Anderberg, Dan - 2016

, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted … results to interpret several stylized facts about marriage and divorce that cannot be straightforwardly reconciled with …

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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing

Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness

Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...

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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness : An Economic Analysis

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2013

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...

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Self-Enforcing Family Rules, Marriage and the (Non)Neutrality of Public Intervention

Cigno, Alessandro - 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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