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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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Child support awards in Britain: an analysis of data from the families and children study

Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothers have an award or order but the type of award they...

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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children

Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of divorce on economic outcomes, and has concluded that … divorce has little effect on women’s mean household income. However, using a Quantile Treatment Effect methodology (Abadie et … al. 2002) we find that divorce widens the income distribution: it increases the probability that a woman has very low or …

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Non-residential fatherhood and child involvement: evidence from the millennium cohort study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neither cohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood that commences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Study to examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood....

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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

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More on Marriage, Fertility, and the Distribution of Income.

Greenwood, J.; Guner, N.; Knkwles, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … the quantity and quality of children. They can divorce. Social policies, such as child tax credits or child support …

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Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst the generations of children born since the 1970s in European … of the adult demographic behaviour of children who experienced parental divorce (compared with those who did not) are …

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