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Are Happy Marriages Faithful Marriages? Addressing the Endogeneity Problem
2021
What makes a person more likely to engage in an extramarital affair, and are there systematic differences between men and women? These complex questions have been central to the empirical and theoretical literature on infidelity since its interception in economics with Fair (1978) . One factor that is often found important is happiness and/or marital happiness. Men and women who are happy are less likely to have an affair. This intuitive and somewhat unsurprising result, however, is fraught
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