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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...
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Fertility Control Early in Marriage in Ireland a Century Ago
Duffy, Niall; O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789159
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the role of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246603
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Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics
Edlund, Lena Cecilia; Haider, Laila; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the decline in marriage in these countries. This pattern is … mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions out of marriage make women, but not men, significantly more … of non-marriage extends to the allocation of State resources. We find that the relationship between the decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123548
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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
. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123619
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124463
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Family Matters
Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people’s educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991–5) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497967
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decision. It was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656201
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Parental Sex Selection and Gender Balance
Bhaskar, Venkataraman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in a biased sex ratio that is socially inefficient, due to a congestion externality in the marriage market. Improvements … in selection techniques aggravate the inefficiency. These results are robust to allowing prices in the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656228