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Peltzman, Sam - 2025

average. This holds not just for standard characteristics but also for those directly related to marriage like children and …

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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Marriage Versus Cohabitation : How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Marriage versus cohabitation : how specialization and time use differ by relationship type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Old money, the nouveaux riches and Brunhilde's marriage strategy

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the...

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Old money, the nouveau riche and Brunhilde's marriage dilemma : conference paper

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable. Taking into account that she also bears...

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Less Status, More Contract : An Economic Analysis of 'Contract Marriage'

Tsaoussi, Aspasia - 2008

Economic analysis suggests that the hesitation to contractualize marriage creates a number of inefficiencies. This … paper discusses these inefficiencies and then proposes an economic reconceptualization of Continental marriage law. By … bringing in more contract into the statutes regulating marriage, we suggest that marriage law can become a more efficient …

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Parental leave, household specialization and children's well-being

Canaan, Serena - 2019

Many countries offer new parents long periods of paid leave. Proponents argue that parental leave programs can reduce gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that lengthy leaves can instead work against several of these...

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Specialization and Happiness in Marriage : A U.S.-Japan Comparison

Ono, Hiroshi; Schultz Lee, Kristen - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our …

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The marital satisfaction of differently-aged couples

Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2017

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

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