Search Results - subject:"marriage"

The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation

Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2020

arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …

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Improving child welfare in middle income countries : the unintended consequence of a pro-homemaker divorce law and wait time to divorce

Heggeness, Misty L. - In: Journal of development economics 143 (2020)

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020

all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but …

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The wealth of parents : trends over time in assortative mating based on parental wealth

Wagner, Sander; Boertien, Diederik; Gørtz, Mette - 2020

This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably...

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Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi

Haenni, Simon; Lichand, Guilherme - 2020

find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …

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