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Does Custody Law Affect Family Behavior In and Out of Marriage?
Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959670
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How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761913
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002821
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703298
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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959712
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Pension and the Family
Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959782
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252286
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayioglu; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225779
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403392
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Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....
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