Despite interest in the potential of the welfare system as a tool to affect marriage behaviors among low-income women, little is known about how welfare participation affects decisions to marry. We employ an event history approach to examine transitions to marriage over a five-year period among mothers who have had a non-marital birth. We find that welfare participation under the Temporary Assi...

as mutually agreed upon by the two major sects (shī‘a and sunnī), divorce is effected only by the husband; and to explain the evidence for this matter, the jurists commonly resort to the prophet’s tradition, “divorce is in the hands of the one who has touched the leg [i.e. in the hands of the husband]” although this tradition is mainly related in the sunnī tradition sources, it is claimed in im...

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This paper investigates the pricing and production game in a decentralized assembly system that consists of one assembler and two independent suppliers. One supplier is able to exert the push contract on the assembler so as to transfer all his inventory risk, while the other supplier has to accept the pull contract from the assembler and consequently bears the overstock risk. Under this hybrid ...

Normatively, the scholars agreed that pregnant women marriage is considered legal, but it must be carried out again after giving birth. There a renewal of law relating to legality contract for woman. In this case Indonesian Islamic consider sociological and psychological elements especially local culture society, then KHI was compromising approach customary law. That compromise seen from fact h...

The optimal contract under moral hazard is embedded in a standard MortensenPissarides matching model. Under standard assumptions, we show that when firms cannot perfectly observe workers’ productivity the optimal contract can take the form of a debt contract exhibiting almost a fixed wage along the business cycle. When this contract is embedded in the standard matching model, the calibrated mod...