Original title: Marriage dot EU: the effect of internet usage on marriage hazard
Authors: Vozár, Mário
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2011
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 444
Abstract: The rapid growth of internet usage over the last two decades has been influencing many aspects of our life and most noticeably the ways in which people communicate with each other. Therefore, it is appropriate to ask whether the growth of internet usage influences individuals’ marital decisions in modern society. In my study, I concentrate on the effect of the growing internet usage on the gender and age-specific marriage hazard rate for the first time marriages in Europe. The panel data analysis reveals a negative impact of internet usage on male’s as well as female’s marriage hazard rate for those in their twenties.
Keywords: divorce; internet; marriage market
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z70850503 (CEP), LC542 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA MŠk

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp444.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0204970

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