We consider stable marriage problems equipped with covering constraints: here the input distinguishes a subset of women as well as a subset of men, and we seek a matching with fewest number of blocking pairs that matches all of the distinguished people. This concept strictly generalizes the notion of arranged marriages introduced by Knuth in 1976, in which the partner of each distinguished pers...

Marriage formation is deeply embedded in societal context. This study documents trends towards lower marriage rates and delayed marriage in Europe and the US. Using time series analyses, it shows the relevance of economic and gender context in understanding marriage formation. The study extends previous work by including more countries, a longer time period, and by examining changes in predicto...

Approximation Algorithms for Stable Marriage Problems Hiroki Yanagisawa Kyoto University, Japan 2007 The stable marriage problem is a classical matching problem introduced by Gale and Shapley. An instance of the stable marriage problem consists of men and women, where each person totally orders all members of the opposite sex. A matching is stable if there is no pair that prefer each other to t...

introduction: the important of comparing performance of hospitals using hospital indicators, has been made the necessary of utilizing of the application model inevitable. this study aimed to compare hospital performance key indicators simultaneity. methods: in this descriptive cross sectional and retrospective study, 31 hospitals of isfahan university of medical sciences were evaluated in 2007....

objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the types of fall-related injuries and the related risk factors in the elderly population of qom province, iran. patients and methods this retrospective study was performed on 424 elderly people (65 years and over) referred to shahid beheshti hospital, qom, iran, due to falls between 2010 and 2012. the icd-10 codes of external causes of inju...

This report presents statistics on age at marriage, number of children ever born, length of interval between births, and expected completed family size according to indicators of women's participation in the U.S. labor force, such as employment, occupation, and earnings. The statistics, presented in tables, are based on personal interviews with a nationally representative sample of currently m...

It is believed that the length of a person's life depends on a mixture of economic and social factors. Yet the relative importance of these is still debated. We provide recent British evidence that marriage has a strong positive effect on longevity. Economics matters less. After controlling for health at the start of the 1990s, we cannot find reliable evidence that income affects the probabilit...

Title of dissertation: THE EFFECT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS ON DIFFERENT-SEX MARRIAGE: EVIDENCE FROM THE NETHERLANDS Mircea Ştefan Trandafir, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Judith K. Hellerstein Department of Economics It has long been argued that the legalization of same-sex marriage would have a negative impact on marriage. My dissertation examines what happene...

286 men presenting for vasectomy were interviewed preoperatively as a psychological screening; their wives were interviewed separately. Age range was from 23-49 years. Number of children tended to be small (mean, 2.7 children/couple). The length of time the couple was married varied widely (5-25 years). In this screening interview special reference was made to emotional and sexual difficul...

On 3 December 1996, a Hawaiian state court upheld the legalization of same-sex marriage, although the next day the presiding judge set the ruling aside pending the outcome of an appeal by the state. This ruling rekindled fears that exist regarding the potential legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the United States. To answer concerns regarding same-sex marriage, I will examine several ...