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Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

. Whatever the matrimonial property regime, reducing the cost or difficulty of obtaining a divorce will have no permanent effect … on the divorce rate. In a separate-property jurisdiction, it will encourage marriage, and induce more married women to …

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Whatever happened to the domestic division of labour? A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility and participation.

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic …

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A gender-neutral approach to gender issues.

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

In this paper, I attempt to explain a number of facts, adverse to women, without assuming that the latter are discriminated against in the labour market, that mothers love children more fathers, or that parents treat sons better than daughters. Nor do I assume that individual behaviour is...

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VISITATIONS AND TRANSFERS IN NON-INTACT HOUSEHOLS

Boca, Daniela del; Ribero, Rocio - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 1999

Recent research reveals that divorce negatively impacts children’s welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …

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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2009

, reflecting the increasing incidence of divorce and the expansion of female labor market participation. In particular, towards the …

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Divorce and the Option Value of Marital Search

FILOSO, VALERIO - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2007

This works tests whether or not the introduction of divorce law changes the timing of marital search. Common sense … suggests that rational agents should adjust to the divorce risk by increasing the average length of search spell, whereas the … matching, and possibly reinforcing self-fulfilling prophecies of divorce. …

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Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts

Boca, Daniela Del; Flinn, Christopher J. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005

We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms of population heterogeneity in the parameters...

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JOINT DECISIONS ON HOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHIP AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION OF YOUTHS The role of expected earnings and local markets

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2001

This paper analyses the effects of expected earnings and local markets conditions on the behaviour of young adults with high school diplomas. Decisions to either remain in the parental home or form a new household are modelled jointly with those of either gaining work experience or investing in...

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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Changing Paths to Adulthood in Italy. Men and Women Entering Stable Work and Family Careers

Mencarini, Letizia; Solera, Cristina - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

Paths to adulthood have changed greatly in the last decades: entries into the labour market as well as into partnership or parenthood have been postponed, with also new sequences and interconnections. In this piece of work we observe life-courses from the ages of 14 to 35 of men and women born...

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