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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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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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Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...
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We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …
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This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …
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This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity...
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cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …
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-efficacy differed significantly between boys and girls when youth and gender identities were emphasized but not when stressing personal …
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National Business Survey. I construct measures of diversity and sameness across ethnicity and gender 'bases', alongside …
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the life-course in the legacies of earlier disadvantage. Unemployment or divorce between ages 23 and 33 promote … disadvantage at age 33 and the legacies of divorce are more powerful for women. The implications for our understanding of the …
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