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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....

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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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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021

show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran

Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022

This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...

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Is our fiscal system discouraging marriage? : a new look at the marriage tax

Ilin, Elias; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2022

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax: the reduction in future spending from getting married … path's probability. And it assumes clone marriage-marrying oneself-to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is … unaffected by spousal choice. We calculate our marriage tax for young respondents using the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF …

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Stable income, stable family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...

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Trade-offs? : the impact of WTO accession on intimate partner violence in Cambodia

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021

, without changes in marriage, fertility, psychological distress, or household consumption. …

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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice

Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

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