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and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
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By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …
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Um den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt demografiefest zu machen, bedarf es einer stärkeren Aktivierung des Potenzials weiblicher Erwerbspersonen bei gleichzeitiger Steigerung der Geburtenrate. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Handlungsoptionen zur Lösung dieser beiden zentralen Zukunftsaufgaben auf und...
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Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass eine ausgebaute Mittags- und Nachmittagsbetreuung mit höherer Erwerbstätigkeit und längeren Arbeitszeiten der Mütter einhergeht. Die ganztägige Betreuung von Schulkindern ist damit ein wichtiger Baustein für die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf....
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Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and … composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …
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of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …
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Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …
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Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
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causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …
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have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
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