Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,101
Cover Image
Separate and unequal : the effect of unequal access to employment-based health insurance on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M. V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527186
Cover Image
Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010456987
Cover Image
Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
Cover Image
Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398347
Cover Image
Economic Gradients in Social Health in Britain
Kung, Claryn S. J.; Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite the substantial literature on loneliness, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658310
Cover Image
Economic gradients in social health in Britain
Kung, Claryn S. J.; Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 2021
Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and with chronic health conditions. Despite the substantial literature on loneliness, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623891
Cover Image
Labor market outcomes of same-sex couples in countries with legalized same-sex marriage
Bogusz, Honorata; Gromadzki, Jan - 2024
two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580732
Cover Image
Not your lucky day : romantically and numerically special wedding date divorce risks
Kabátek, Jan; Ribar, David C. - 2016
marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543953
Cover Image
But who will get Billy? : the effect of child custody laws on marriage
Rose, Elaina; Wong, Crystal Ho Po - 2014
to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434625
Cover Image
Equilibrium search and the impact of equal opportunities for women
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Francesconi, Marco - 2017
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670967