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Widows' time, time stress and happiness: adjusting to loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2021
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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Gendered wealth losses after dissolution of cohabitation but not marriage in Germany
Boertien, Diederik; Lersch, Philipp M. - 2019
Objective: To document gender differences in how economic wealth changes following the dissolution of marriage and … a more unequal division of wealth following the dissolution of cohabitation as compared to marriage. Method: The … women after the dissolution of marriage. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is related to losses in wealth for women, but …
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Personality and marital surplus
Lundberg, Shelly - 2010
, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965637
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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples : are there spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - 2012
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580538
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Personality and marital surplus
Lundberg, Shelly - 2010
, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825928
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Would you marry me? : The effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen (contributor);  … - 2007
Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no …:3 percent of the women born between 1954 and 1958 started their first union outside of a formal marriage. The figure increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003461270
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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples : are there spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - 2012
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613732
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SOEP-Core v35 - The couple history files BIOCOUPLM and BIOCOUPLY, and marital history files BIOMARSM and BIOMARSY
Hamjediers, Maik; Schmelzer, Paul; Geschke, … - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / … - 2020
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