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Social Assistance and Conjugal Union Dissolution in Canada: A Dynamic Analysis

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  • Pierre Lefebvre
  • Philip Merrigan

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Using Statistics Canada's General Social Survey on Family and Friends, carried out in 1990, we piece together the matrimonial and conjugal life history of a large sample of Canadian men and women. We then estimate duration models (Cox's proportional hazard models) describing the evolutionary laws of marriages and unions, which depend on various economic or socio-demographic explanatory variables. The empirical modelling focuses primarily on estimating the impact of couples' earned incomes and of provincial welfare programs on the dissolution rate of first marriages and unions. According to the estimation results, models of marriage-cohabitation duration of Canadian couples are misspecified when they do not incorporate economic variables. We also find that welfare benefits do not have an impact on the hazard of union dissolution and that earned incomes have a positive effect on conjugal stability.

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  • Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 1997. "Social Assistance and Conjugal Union Dissolution in Canada: A Dynamic Analysis," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 30(1), pages 112-134, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:30:y:1997:i:1:p:112-34
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    1. Martin D. Dooley & Stéphane Gascon & Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 2000. "Lone Female Headship and Welfare Policy in Canada," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 35(3), pages 587-602.
    2. David Burgess & Joel Fried, 1998. "Canadian Tax Deferred Savings Plans and the Foreign Property Rule," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 9801, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
    3. Tara Shankar Shaw, 2011. "Transitions from Cohabitation," Review of Market Integration, India Development Foundation, vol. 3(2), pages 121-159, August.
    4. Audra J. Bowlus & Shannon N. Seitz, 1998. "The Role of Domestic Abuse in Labor and Marriage Markets," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 98-114/3, Tinbergen Institute.

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