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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019 One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of ...
Robert Nakosteen, Michael Zimmer
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Why Do German Men Marry Women from Less Developed Countries?: An Analysis of Transnational Partner Search Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel [PDF]
This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1.
David Glowsky
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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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Collective Models and the Marriage Market
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 In this paper, I develop an integrated approach to collective models and matching models of the marriage market. In the collective framework, both household formation and the intra-household allocation of bargaining power are taken as given. This is no longer the case in the present contribution, where both are endogenous to the determination of ...
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Health Preferences and Sorting in the City
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
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On the Relationship Between the Marriage Squeeze and the Quality of Life of Rural Men in China
American Journal of Men's Health, 2017 China is facing a male marriage squeeze, as there are more men in the marriage market than potential female partners. As a consequence, some men may fail to ever marry.
Xueyan Yang PhD +3 more
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market [PDF]
We produce a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenuos marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production Pre-marital investments generate two kinds of returns: a labor-market return due to the education premium ...
Murat Iyigun +2 more
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Human Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar +2 more
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Partners not for life? on the determinants of marriage dissolution in Indonesia
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 While there have been numerous studies exploring the determinants of divorce in social science, economic studies on such marriage dissolution are scarce.
Handalusia Husni Vici +2 more
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