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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we...
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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Divorce laws and fertility
Bellido, Héctor; Marcén, Miriam - In: Labour Economics 27 (2014) C, pp. 56-70
are married prior to or after the divorce law reforms, pointing to a selection effect on the composition of marriages. …
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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment
Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second Demographic Transition." The empirical case for a Second...
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low … throughout the life cycle. Though effect sizes are heterogeneous, long-term studies imply that in practice, family planning … programs may only explain a small share of fertility decline in real-world settings. Family planning programs may also have …
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Fortunate Families? : The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men's attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth...
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