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Marriage with Labor Supply [PDF]
We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply. We characterize the steady-state equilibrium when exogenous divorce is the only source of risk. The estimated matching probabilities
Jean-Marc Robin, Nicolas Jacquemet
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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage [PDF]
Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including
Sofya Krutikova, Kathleen Beegle
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Male and Female Marriage Returns to Schooling [PDF]
A collective marriage matching model is estimated and calibrated to quantify the share of returns to schooling that is realized through marriage. The predictions of the model are matched with US data on the relationship between schooling and wage rates ...
Bruze, Gustaf
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Assets at Marriage in Rural Ethiopia [PDF]
This paper examines the determinants of assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia. We identify and test three separate processes that determine assets brought to marriage: assortative matching; compensating parental transfers at marriage; and strategic ...
Agnes Quisumbing, Marcel Fafchamps
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Cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and the marriage process [PDF]
Past work on the relationship between cohabitation and childbearing shows that cohabitation increases fertility compared to being single, and does so more for intended than unintended births.
Kelly Musick
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Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals [PDF]
Both men and women wish to have a family and a rewarding career. In this paper, we show that the under-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young women's marriage-timing decisions. Since investing in a
Sylvain Dessy, Habiba Djebbari
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Integrated care, physicians, mental health and attorneys: Multi-disciplinary care in a legal world
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2014 Eron Manusov +3 more
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Partner Search and Demographics: The Marriage Squeeze in India [PDF]
If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a sur- plus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payos to study if this so ...
Anja Sautmann
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Marriage and Divorce in a Model of Matching [PDF]
We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the matching with bargaining framework of Crawford and Rochford (1986). We run simulations to find the effects of alimony rate, legal cost of
Mumcu, Ayse, Saglam, Ismail
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