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United but (Un)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - CESifo - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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Agency in Family Policy: A Survey

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009

of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents also in the sense of Principal-Agent theory if the parental action …

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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit …

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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...

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Life in Shackles? The Quantitative Implications of Reforming the Educational Loan System

Heijdra, Ben J.; Kindermann, Fabian; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - CESifo - 2014

face uninsurable idiosyncratic labour productivity risk during their working career. We calibrate the model to the US …

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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - CESifo - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...

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