For Better or For Worse? State-Level Marital Formation and Risk Sharing
For Better or For Worse? State-Level Marital Formation and Risk Sharing
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Dordrecht: Springer Nature B.V
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English
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Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherein a state's representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification motive is enhanced for some utility functions when a state...
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For Better or For Worse? State-Level Marital Formation and Risk Sharing
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_221216328
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_221216328
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1569-5239
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1573-7152
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10.1007/s11150-005-4940-2
