Methods and Tools for the Microsimulation and Forecasting of Household Expenditure [PDF]
, 2008 This paper reviews potential methods and tools for the microsimulation and forecasting of household expenditure. It begins with a discussion of a range of approaches to the forecasting of household populations via agent-based modelling tools.
Lawson, Tony
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Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s
, 2011 The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979–2007.
Beaujouan, Éva, Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Same-Sex Marriages: Legal Issues [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] This report discusses The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and legal challenges to it. It reviews legal principles applied to determine the validity of a marriage contracted in another state and surveys the various approaches employed by states ...
Smith, Alison M
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Healthy Marriage and the Legacy of Child Maltreatment: A Child Welfare Perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Reviews research on the links between childhood physical or emotional abuse and barriers to healthy marriages, such as poverty and mental health problems.
Rutledge Q. Hutson, Tiffany Conway
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Determining the Minimum Age of Marriage in the Perspective of Economics and Al-Ikhtiyath Al-Fiqhy
Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Sharia EconomicsThe purpose of this study is to find out and provide views on the determination of the minimum age of marriage from two perspectives, namely the economic perspective and the economic perspective al Ikhtiyath al fiqhy.
Ghozali Lathoif Muhammad +2 more
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Trends in Irish Fertility Rates in Comparative Perspective [PDF]
This paper examines trends in Irish fertility rates over the past four decades in the context of fertility trends in developed countries generally. Irish fertility rates have stabilised at the upper edge of the European range in the 1990s.
Tony Fahey
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Social Structure and Personality Assortment Among Married Couples [PDF]
, 2006 We study the influence of social structure on assortative mating for personality in a large national sample (n=3616) of married and cohabitating couples in the Netherlands.
Aken, Marcel A.G. van +2 more
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Nike – Tracking Report – China Factory Code: 0700151217I; September 16, 2010 [PDF]
, 2010 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
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The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women [PDF]
Using data from the NLSY79, we structurally estimate a dynamic model of the life cycle decisions of young women. The women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation.
Kenneth I. Wolpin, Michael P. Keane
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Same-Sex Marriages: Legal Issues [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] The recognition of same-sex marriages generates debate on both the federal and state levels. Either legislatively or judicially, same-sex marriage is legal in seven states.
Smith, Alison M
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