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No-fault divorce and the compression of marriage ages
We examine how no-fault divorce law affects the age at first marriage, when everyone has a different value of marriage. The heterogeneity of individual values implies an unambiguous negative effect on the variance of marriage age. We test this hypothesis with marriage records from 1970 to 1995. Controlling for state-level heterogeneity and for time trends, the standard deviation of the log age at first marriage drops by approximately 5% with the introduction of no-fault divorce. We find that the mean age at first marriage increases slightly, suggesting that the mean person is slightly worse off with no-fault divorce. © Western Economic Association Inernational.postprin
Concept map assessment of classroom learning: Reliability, validity, and logistical practicality
Magnetic-Field-Induced Hybridization of Electron Subbands in a Coupled Double Quantum Well
We employ a magnetocapacitance technique to study the spectrum of the soft
two-subband (or double-layer) electron system in a parabolic quantum well with
a narrow tunnel barrier in the centre. In this system unbalanced by gate
depletion, at temperatures T\agt 30 mK we observe two sets of quantum
oscillations: one originates from the upper electron subband in the
closer-to-the-gate part of the well and the other indicates the existence of
common gaps in the spectrum at integer fillings. For the lowest filling factors
and , both the common gap presence down to the point of one- to
two-subband transition and their non-trivial magnetic field dependences point
to magnetic-field-induced hybridization of electron subbands.Comment: Major changes, added one more figure, the latest version to be
published in JETP Let
Quantum Hall effect in single wide quantum wells
We study the quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level for a single wide
quantum well. Due to a separation of charges to opposite sides of the well, a
single wide well can be modelled as an effective two level system. We provide
numerical evidence of the existence of a phase transition from an
incompressible to a compressible state as the electron density is increased for
specific well width. Our numerical results show a critical electron density
which depends on well width, beyond which a transition incompressible double
layer quantum Hall state to a mono-layer compressible state occurs. We also
calculate the related phase boundary corresponding to destruction of the
collective mode energy gap. We show that the effective tunneling term and the
interlayer separation are both renormalised by the strong magnetic field. We
also exploite the local density functional techniques in the presence of strong
magnetic field at to calculate renormalized . The
numerical results shows good agreement between many-body calculations and local
density functional techniques in the presence of a strong magnetic field at
. we also discuss implications of this work on the
incompressible state observed in SWQW.Comment: 30 pages, 7 figures (figures are not included
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