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Will you “quasi-marry” me? The rise of cohabitation and decline of marriages

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorAdamopoulou, Effrosyni
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-26T13:56:59Z
dc.date.available2010-10-26T13:56:59Z
dc.date.issued2010-10-10
dc.description.abstractIn Western Europe and the US, the last couple of decades have witnessed a large increase in the new forms of marriages, usually called quasi-marriages, like cohabitation. Today in many European countries more than 15% of all couples are cohabiting. Furthermore, cohabiting couples differ from married ones. They tend to share household tasks and market works more equally than married couples. The aim of this paper is to account for the rise in cohabitation as well as the cross-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with home production. Using this framework, we analyze, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of the narrowing of the gender wage gap and the improvement in household production technology on the agents’ marital decisions.
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1026
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/9516
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries10-26
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.jelD10
dc.subject.jelJ12
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.otherMarriage
dc.subject.otherCohabitation
dc.subject.otherMarital institutions
dc.subject.otherHousehold production technology
dc.subject.otherGender wage gap
dc.titleWill you “quasi-marry” me? The rise of cohabitation and decline of marriages
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