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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...

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A New Color in the Picture: The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany

Oppermann, Anja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage.

Loughran, David S. - RAND - 2000

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States …

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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

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The Bigger the Children, the Bigger the Worries: Are Preschoolers and Adolescents Affected Differently by Family Instability with Regard to Non-cognitive Skills?

Peter, Frauke H.; Spiess, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...

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Marital Disruption and Mortality.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - RAND - 1996

Both men and women appear to benefit from being married. This article uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors- financial well-being, living arrangements and marital history - account for this relationship.

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris Van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - CESifo - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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