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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness
Helliwell, John F.; Grover, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114858
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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821899
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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709587
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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050086
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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?
Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710625
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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829935
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252666
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Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?
Slavov, Sita Nataraj; Goda, Gopi Shah; Shoven, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Despite the presence of Medicare, out-of-pocket medical spending is a large expenditure risk facing the elderly. While women live longer than men, elderly women incur higher out-of-pocket medical spending than men at each age. In this paper, we examine whether differences in marital status and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323433
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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
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