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Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics
Galichon, Alfred; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on … characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …
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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
decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …
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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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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto F; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...
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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Female Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …
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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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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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