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effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …
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This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children … Schools Census and the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) dataset on inspections (2010 …-11). The results suggest that children from disadvantaged background have access to better qualified staff. However, services …
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, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …
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Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent 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...
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We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
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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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or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether …This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award … disadvantaged. Moreover, awards were less commonplace where there were fewer children, where mothers claimed Income Support, were …
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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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We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in...
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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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