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Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued … that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are …
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estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects. …
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marriage, while increasing the probability of never having married. In general, for less advantaged teens, motherhood appears … surprisingly little evidence that births affected teens conceiving pre- and post-marriage differently. …
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This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...
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This paper takes a different tack in addressing one of the fundamental questions in economics: what are the factors that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent literature, wage levels have been used to estimate the...
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …
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particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
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