Search Results - subject:"dissolution"

The Texas shoot-out under Knightian Uncertainty

Bauch, Gerrit; Riedel, Frank - 2022

The allocation of a co-owned company to a single owner using the Texas Shoot-Out mechanism with private valuations is investigated. We identify Knightian Uncertainty about the peer's distribution as the reason for its deterrent effect of an immature dissolving. Modeling uncertainty by a compact...

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Dynamics of Union Dissolution in Sub‐Saharan Africa

John, Ben Malinga; Nitsche, Natalie - In: Population and Development Review 48 (2022) 4, pp. 1163-1201

dissolution and the reproductive time “lost” due to union dissolution is lacking. We close this gap by applying standard indirect … and timing of all‐cause union dissolution and (ii) the time women spend outside of marriage due to union dissolution … average marital duration at first union dissolution varies between 4.8 and 9.4 years. The pace of remarriage is rapid across …

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Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences

Dahmann, Sarah C.; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

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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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences

Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

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Do Judges Exhibit Gender Bias? Evidence from the Universe of Divorce Cases in China

Cai, Xiqian; Li, Pei; Lu, Yi; Song, Hong - 2022

Does gender identity affect judicial decisions? This paper provides novel evidence of in-group gender bias in judicial decisions for almost all the divorce cases in China. Exploiting effectively random assignment of cases to judges, the analysis finds that a claim with a male plaintiff is 3.9%...

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Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment

Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022

Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...

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Air Pollution and Joint Decision : Evidence from Divorce Records

Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Ning; Lei, Ziteng; He, Qi - 2022

We provide novel evidence on how air pollution affects high-stakes joint decisions. Using administrative data of divorce records in a provincial capital in China from 2016 to 2019 and exploiting thermal inversions as an instrumental variable for air pollution, we find that a one standard...

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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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Marriage and Divorce During a Pandemic : The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Marital Formation and Dissolution in Mexico

Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Miyar, José Roberto Balmori de la; … - 2022

In this study, we consider the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family formation and dissolution. We use national …

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Still believe it? : an analysis of partnership trajectories after first union dissolution in Italy

De Rose, Alessandra; Meli, Eleonora - In: Rivista italiana di economia, demografia e statistica 76 (2022) 1, pp. 167-178

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