Marital Status and Unobserved Heterogeneity - Do twins suggest a genetic inheritance?

William Nilsson ()
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William Nilsson: Department of Economics, Umeå University, Postal: S 901 87 Umeå, Sweden

No 685, Umeå Economic Studies from Umeå University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to reveal the importance of unobserved heterogeneity on marital status. The results for monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic twins indicate an important genetic component in marital status. Simply controlling for marital status could be misleading

Keywords: marriage; divorce; heterogeneity; selection; twins (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-06-07
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