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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native...
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Love Capital and the Nurturance Gap
This chapter seeks to activate the principle of (scholarly) innovation by critically evaluating the forms of love capital being accumulated by people...
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Sexual orientation and the ‘cohabitation gap’ in life satisfaction in Canada
The ‘cohabitation gap’ refers to the generally higher life satisfaction of married spouses compared with those who cohabit without being married. The...
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Age at Marriage
Age at first marriage is an informative socioeconomic outcome, relevant to all times and countries. It is determined by social domains of gender...
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What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data
This paper studies the gender gap in net wealth. We use administrative data on wealth that are linked to the Estonian Household Finance and...
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Data Domotopia: introduction to the quantitative survey
This paper describes the Data Domotopia a 2300 + respondent self-administered web-based survey. It includes 100 + multi-purpose items about...
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Male wage inequality and characteristics of “early mover” marriages
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever-married women in their 20 s, consistent with the theoretical...
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Access to housing credit and marriage: evidence from redlining maps
This study evaluates the impact of a policy popularly known as “redlining” on marriage. This policy led to the creation of a series of maps that...
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Looking inside the ballot box: gender gaps in Argentine presidential elections
Since women were given the right to vote in the first half of the twentieth century, several studies verify the existence of noticeable differences...
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Happiness and Partnerships
Partnered individuals are generally happier than singles. The positive association between partnership and happiness has multiple explanations. A...
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Chile: the tale of the upper tail
This paper provides the first estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility in Chile using administrative data linking parents’ and children’s...
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Spousal age gap and identity and their impact on the allocation of housework
This study investigates how spousal age gaps influence the allocation of housework between husbands and wives. Further, we consider the identity...
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Wealth inequalities among seniors: the role of marital histories across cohorts
Wealth accumulation is the result of several factors: saving behaviors, inheritance, work and marital histories. In a context of increasing diversity...
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Monetary values of changes in Body Mass Index: do spouses play a role?
The public-health challenges associated with increased body weight have long been stressed, but greater attention has lately been brought to how...
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Relationship between education and well-being in China
Well-being is often quantitatively measured based on individuals’ income or health situation but the relationship between education and well-being...
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Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France
Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here...
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Will you marry me? It depends (on the business cycle)
This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and the marriage rate, using a panel data of 30 European countries for 1991 to 2018....
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The great divide: education, despair, and death
There is a growing gap across many measures between the one-third of the U.S. that has a B.A. degree or higher and the other two-thirds. This is most...
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Gender Roles and Families
The chapter addresses the complex interplay between the new roles of women and men and the diversity of family life courses (focusing on heterosexual...
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The role of relative income in the share of children born out-of-wedlock in the USA
This paper investigates the non-marital fertility evolution in the USA for the period between 1976 and 2016. Beyond the well-known determinants in...
