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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
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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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 also increases male fertility. The only discernible effect on female …
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Global production networks and employment : a developing country perspective
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2013
This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
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Making Thailand's services sector more competitive through international trade
Suzuki, Kosuke; Ayudhaya, Manasit Choomsai Na; Lenain, … - 2020
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and professional services are traded indirectly through value...
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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns
Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Yue, Vivian Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using microdata and a quantitative Ricardian and...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small …
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The Distributional Consequences of Trade : Evidence from the Grain Invasion
Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
transfers for over 10,000 parishes in England and Wales from 1801-1901. In response to this trade shock, we show that locations … develop a quantitative spatial model to evaluate the income distributional consequences of this trade shock. Undertaking …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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The length of schooling and the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 68 (2022) 1, pp. 1-45
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