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On the causes and consequences of divorce

Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia; Mammini, Claudio - 2008

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. …

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …

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Will women save more than men? A theoretical model of savings and marriage

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra; Pereira, Alfredo Marvao - 2010

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

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The effect of child care on family structure: Theory and evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012

mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...

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Till Taxes Keep Us Apart? The Impact of the Marriage Tax on the Marriage Rate

Myohl, Nadia - 2022

Married couples often face a different tax burden than cohabitating couples with the same income. I study the effect of joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and cohabitating couples vary considerably across cantons....

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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability

Anderberg, Dan - 2019

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...

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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the Us and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2019

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Joint Retirement of Couples : Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark

García-Miralles, Esteban; Leganza, Jonathan M. - 2021

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying...

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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline –albeit non-significant– in the number of marriages. While …

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