Does simplifying divorce and marriage registration matter? Evidence from China

This article evaluates the marital consequences of easier access to divorce and marriage by exploiting a major policy change in China that simplifies both. I first use a regression discontinuity design to examine the short-run effect and find that simplified registration immediately triggered more and faster divorces and marriages. In estimating the long-run effect, I adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that further exploits cross-sectional variation in urbanization rate. Results indicate that the positive effect on marital outcomes, especially on marriage rate, persisted in the medium run for 4 years.     

Malthus in Sweden

This paper presents some new and unique cross‐county data from 19th‐century Sweden over birth, death, and marriage rates, grain prices, and harvests. Local grain prices correlate negatively with local harvests, suggesting imperfectly integrated food markets. The so‐called positive and preventive checks are also present: good local harvests are associated with high birth and marriage rates, and low death rates. We also find that the fertility and marriage effects from changes in prices – but not harvests – are greater in counties that rely more on manufacturing, consistent with an open‐economy model of fertility choice, where agents earn income from both agriculture and manufacturing.     

古罗马中央政权、皇权与税金流动的关系——兼述大规模区际税金在西部地中海之流动

地中海东部地区(麗范特)独特的自然地理条件和气候条件孕育了古希腊蔚蓝色的海洋文明,对其西部的古罗马文明产生深远影响。中心是研究大规模区际税金在西部地中海之流动。大规模税金流动是通过地方区际贸易与交易完成的。区际贸易量由资金供给量决定。而资金来自税金和租金。古罗马政治权势集中在大税吏手里。从行省来首都的租金、税金多由皇室、中央精英花销,成为贸易发展的动力源泉。反映出海洋文明对罗马文明的深刻影响。     

夫妻侵权民事责任理论与实践问题探析

夫妻侵权行为,是指婚姻关系存续期间,夫妻一方以作为或不作为的方式侵害其配偶合法权利,并使对方的人身、财产乃至精神方面遭受到直接损害的一种侵权行为。由于侵权人与受害人之间为夫妻关系,夫妻侵权与一般侵权行相较而言具有一些特殊性。我国《婚姻法》针对夫妻侵权设立了离婚损害赔偿制,但存在适用范围界定不清、适用情形过窄,排除了混合过错及第三者的适用,排除了婚内侵权损害赔偿等缺陷。今后在《婚姻法》修改时应明确离婚损害赔偿也适用于协议离婚,并扩大使用范围,引入夫妻共同财产强制终止制度。     

Why Jo Refused Love From Laurie？ --reflection on Little Women

Little Women was a family novel with the nature of autobiography. The author was Louisa May Alcott. It is one of the best loved books of all time. It has been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. Base on Louisa May Alcott＇ s childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers. The novel emphasized their individuality and the dignity. This article mainly analyzes the relationship between Jo and Laurie, which worth reconsidering to all and it reflect the writer＇ s main idea of the whole novel.     

Local Labour Markets and the Interregional Mobility of Italian University Students

Abstract

This paper looks at a little-explored role that universities can play: that of representing a channel for brain gain, enabling regions to attract bright students who may decide to stay after they have graduated. In this way, universities can be a source of selective migration processes and possibly of diverging development paths, by augmenting the capability of economically dynamic regions to attract bright people from the lagging regions. In this paper, we argue that student mobility behaviour is a function not only of the quality of universities, but also of local labour market conditions in the destination locations. The paper relies on a gravity model, and shows that graduate migrations respond to several determinants, among which graduate job vacancies (that is, the dynamism of the local labour market) appear to be essential.     

The Effect of Marriage Tax Penalties and Subsidies on Marital Status

The United States personal income tax system treats married and unmarried couples differently, creating both penalties and subsidies for marriage. This paper examines the effect of these penalties and subsidies on the choice of marital status. Endogeneity between the marriage penalty a couple faces and its marital status is dealt with using a simulated instrument capturing variation in the tax code over time and between states. I find that a $1,000 change in the financial incentive for marriage has a 1.7 percentage point (1.9 per cent) effect on the probability of marriage. This effect is symmetric for subsidies and penalties and, whilst modest, is four times larger than previously estimated. Lower education groups and couples without children are the most responsive.     

转型时期我国婚恋价值观念嬗变的道德思考

文艺作品及当前的一些社会现象透视出当下存在的非正常婚恋价值观,这些观念很容易给当前婚恋价值的取向造成一些混乱。本文从现象思考,探寻出现该现象的原因,从而探讨树立正确的婚恋价值观的导向。     

The impact of market opening on the supply of interregional train services

A stepwise deregulation of all interregional passenger rail services in Sweden was legally completed in 2010. The incumbent operator (SJ) thereby lost the sole rights to commercial services. The most evident supply increase is the establishment of services in the low-cost niche, which rather complements than competes with the incumbent’s supply. Public Transport Authorities’ (PTAs) joint services have however resulted in strong competition on at least one main line.Despite a period of almost five years since deregulation, the potential effects of the market opening have not yet fully materialised. The business risk for commercial rail operators seems to be much greater than for other modes like air and long distance coach services. SJ have also during decades of deregulated intermodal and years of intramodal competition developed their products and skills and seem well prepared for competition.     

关于《婚姻法》探望权制度的几点思考

探望权制度是2001年《中华人民共和国婚姻法》新增设的一项制度,填补了立法空白,是婚姻家庭立法的一大进步。在分析探望权的含义的基础上,对我国关于探望权的主体、中止和强制执行的法律规定进行了评析,提出应本着子女最佳利益原则,适当扩大探望权的权利和义务主体范围,明确探望权中止的情形,规定探望权执行的基本原则,增加探望权的救济措施,以进一步完善我国的探视权制度。