Relative income and value congruence in dual‐income couples

Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples

Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008). Based on population representative data of almost 7000 couples, high levels of congruence between spouses were found, which increased with marriage duration. Almost 5000 of these couples were tracked over a five-year period with personality assessed at the beginning an...

Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality and

We test whether mortality is related to individual income, mean community income, and community income inequality, controlling for initial health status and personal characteristics. The analysis is based on a random sample from the adult Swedish population of over 40,000 individuals who were followed up for 10-17 years. We find that mortality decreases significantly as individual income increa...

The value of value congruence.

Research on value congruence has attempted to explain why value congruence leads to positive outcomes, but few of these explanations have been tested empirically. In this article, the authors develop and test a theoretical model that integrates 4 key explanations of value congruence effects, which are framed in terms of communication, predictability, interpersonal attraction, and trust. These c...

Personality Changes in Couples – Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples

Optimal Income Taxation of Couples∗

This paper analyzes optimal joint income taxation of two-earner couples. Each couple is modelled as a single rational economic agent supplying labor along two dimensions: primary and secondary earnings. In contrast to the previous literature, we consider fully general joint income tax systems. The optimum tax system is separable into two individual and independent tax schedules only if skills, ...