Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 954
Cover Image
Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812504
Cover Image
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763805
Cover Image
Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the welfare state model and, especially, the family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703536
Cover Image
The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
Cover Image
Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748380
Cover Image
Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510
Cover Image
Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
female BMI are valued in the marriage market instead of attractiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959651
Cover Image
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Fletcher, Jason M.; Padrón, Norma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214039
Cover Image
The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323402
Cover Image
Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395430