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An Equilibrium Analysis of Marriage, Divorce and Risk-Sharing

This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance. Publicly provided insurance, despite potential equilibrium multiplicity, is shown to aect family formation and financial cooperation monotonically. Some aspects of the model are then tested using international survey data and a bivariate probit model with sample selection.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 555

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Marriage
divorce
risk-sharing

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Anderberg, Dan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2001

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Anderberg, Dan
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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