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Urban Networks : Connecting Markets, People, and Ideas
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015
: local returns to scale in innovation, the elasticity of housing supply, and the importance of local amenities. Even if there … are global increasing returns, the returns to local scale in innovation may be decreasing, and that makes networks more …
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment
Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...
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Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce
Gruber, Jonathan - 2000
Most states in the U.S. allow for unilateral divorce, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Such regulations have come under fire for their perceived negative consequences for marital stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no...
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The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000
This paper uses data on adopted children to examine the relative importance of biology and environment in determining educational and labor market outcomes. I employ three long-term panel data sets which contain information on adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological...
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Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data
Friedberg, Leora - 1998
This paper revisits the evidence on the impact of unilateral divorce laws on divorce rates in the United States. Most states switched from requiring mutual consent to allowing unilateral or no-fault divorce between 1970 and 1985, while the national divorce rate more than doubled after 1965....
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Factors Affecting Divorce : A Study of the Terman Sample
Michael, Robert T. - 1976
Within the past few years, renewed interest in understanding marital behavior has resulted in a number of studies which focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a brief rationale for and an estimation of...
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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families
Kleven, Henrik - 2020
adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …
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Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the...
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Social Security and the Timing of Divorce
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2007
Social Security provides spousal benefits in retirement to secondary workers in married couples based on the primary worker's earnings record. In addition, Social Security pays spousal benefits to divorced secondary workers whose marriages lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed...
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