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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...

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On the Origin of the Family

Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...

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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...

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Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates

Gould, Eric D; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

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'I Vont To Be Alone' Transitions to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce Among Young Americans

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cezar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

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Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliy; Llull, Joan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Fertility Control Early in Marriage in Ireland a Century Ago

Duffy, Niall; O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper argues that the evolution of male preferences contributed to the dramatic increase in the proportion of working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different family model – one in which their mother was skilled...

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