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Smith, James P.; Lupton, Joseph - RAND - 1999

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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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage.

Loughran, David S. - RAND - 2000

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …

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Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage.

Bergstrom, T; Schoeni, R-F - RAND - 1996

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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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - RAND - 2007

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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A Collective Labor Supply Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities by Means of Panel Data

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - RAND - 2006

The authors study labor supply of elderly couples by means of a collective model. The model allows individuals to enjoy leisure more (or less) in company of their spouse (complementarity/ externalities in leisure). Preferences and the intra-household bargaining process are identified by using...

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Anchoring and Acquiescence Bias in Measuring Assets in Households Surveys.

Hurd, Michael D. - RAND - 1999

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Study (AHEAD) are large nationally representative panel surveys of individuals aged 51-61 and 70 or over respectively at baseline and their spouses. The objective of this paper is to find evidence about anchoring and...

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What Explains the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy? The Role of Household Decision-Making

Fonseca, Raquel; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Zamarro, Gema; … - RAND - 2009

explanations for the gender gap including the role of marriage and division of financial decision-making among couples. They found …

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The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems

Li, Jui-Chung Allen - RAND - 2007

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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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women

Loughran, David S.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2007

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 Care and Welfare: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy on Split and Three Generation Families.

Cox, Amy G.; Pebley, Anne R. - RAND - 1999

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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