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A time and place for us : essays on migration, time preferences and marriage stability
Compton, Janice - 2005
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Proximity and co-residence of adult children and their parents in the United States : descriptions and correlates
Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A. - In: Annals of economics and statistics 117/118 (2015), pp. 91-114
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Marriage traditions and investment in education : the case of bride kidnapping
Bazarkulova, Dana; Compton, Janice - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 1, pp. 147-163
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The Longevity of Older Wives and Their Husbands : Comparing Actual Couples with Synthetic Couples
Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A.; Sanders, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we construct two measures of the longevity of older wives and husbands. For definiteness, we focus on couples in which the wife was 60 and the husband 62 in 1988. Our first measure utilizes a 4 x 4 "longevity matrix" in which the bins...
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