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This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Householders are distinguished principally along standard demographic lines--whether they marry, divorce, separate, or become widowed. Recently, new data have become available that place far more emphasis on the...
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Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are … positively associated with age-at-first-marriage. …
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fairly well understood, relatively little is known about their effects on marriage or child well-being. The authors review a … small number of studies that provide such information here. Their discussion of marriage is couched in terms of a …
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This paper examines the association between use of infertility treatment and infant and child health outcomes. Infertility treatment makes conception possible for many couples who otherwise would have been unable to reproduce. Many treatments also increase the chance of having a multiple birth,...
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Social scientists and commentators disagree on how much of the association between parental divorce and child well-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well-being, measured in terms of behavior problems. The author analyzed...
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effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Their estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four … percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wage growth of men and women by about two and four percentage points … unaffected by childbearing. These findings suggest that early marriage and childbearing can lead to substantial decreases in …
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Grandparent caregiving has received increased attention in recent years, and grandparent-grandchild families have generated several public policy concerns, including whether grandparent-led families face barriers to obtaining public assistance. The authors address this question by comparing the...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze a model to explain consumption by couples. It is an extension fo the model for singles by Yaari (1195), and therefore emphasizes the role of mortality risk. It also allows for what I call a "true" bequest motive, bequeathing by a couple to the next...
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significant. However, there is rarely much discussion of the marriage effect. This effect is central to this study, which …
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