Leaving Home with a Partner

  1. Samuel Bentolila 1
  2. Ildefonso Mendez 2
  3. Francisco Maeso 2
  1. 1 CEMFI
  2. 2 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Revista:
Documentos de Trabajo ( CEMFI )

Año de publicación: 2015

Número: 3

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

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Resumen

Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in 2004-2006, which includes information on partners and their parents. In equilibrium we find some evidence of the importance of assortative mating in moving out. Studying partnership, work, and moving out decisions simultaneously we obtain that the latter depend positively on own human capital and they are affected differently by maternal and paternal characteristics and with different effects on men and women.

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