ECON 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alimony, Transaction Cost, Opportunity Cost
10 Dec 2017
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Us research suggest increase in economic status for women linked to decrease domestic violence. Also suggests divorce law as that grant greater bargaining power to women alimony shelters, counseling expected to have same effect. Marriages have rules about nature of relationship so like an implicit contract that encourages marriage specific investments and allows decision to be made in relative harmony. Do so using paper by katherine marshall titled (cid:498)converging gender roles(cid:499) in july 2006 perspectives on labour and income published by statstics canada. 1st some more general data on families in canada based on 2006 census family one where two or more people live together- married, common law, lone- parent generally as spouse partner, parent and child. 84% of canadians live this way- further 10. 7% live alone and 5. 3% ived with others. 84% of census families are couple families, with 68. 6% being married and. Onto data and lessons from katherine marshall paper.
