Johann Scharler, Martin Halla,
"Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing"
, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, 10-2008
Original Titel:
Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation
of risk at the individual level, but also have implications for the allocation of risk at the more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Verlagsanschrift:
Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz
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