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among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
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Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often being considered a primary cause. However, economic theory is not conclusive about whether deterioration in youth employment prospects actually discourages family formation or for...
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We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …
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Information quality affects matching and marital outcomes. We show in a simple two-dimensional matching model that a noisier cue for one trait leads to a shift in sorting tradeoff toward the other, lowers average welfare but the impact is asymmetric. To test the predictions, we explore the...
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Public policy addressing the harmful practice of adolescent marriage tends to leave out men, as prospective grooms … mechanical effect reflecting the endogeneity between schooling and marriage-timing decisions, and that it is stronger where …
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Im Jahr 2003 wurden 88,4% aller Scheidungen in Österreich im Einvernehmen geschieden. Die einvernehmliche Scheidung erfordert--wenn beide Gatten die Scheidung wünschen--nur eine Vereinbarung der wesentlichen Scheidungsfolgen. Anhand von Scheidungsakten der Jahre 1997 bis 2003 eines...
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Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …
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earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
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This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation decisions. Our results show that individual earnings...
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