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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisionsin Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical …

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Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework

Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...

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Child Support Awards in Britain: An Analysis of Datafrom the Families and Children Study

Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

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

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

enquire whether they differ in the extent of their engagement in family lifecompared with fathers who have been living with …

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Cohabitation and divorce across nations andgenerations

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

marriage; they are less likely to have their first childwithin marriage; and their own partnerships and marriages are in …

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East of Malta, West of Suez : Britain's Mediterranean crisis, 1936-1939

Pratt, Lawrence R. - 1975

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The Divorced and Who Divorces?

Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to … allows caste to remaina persistent feature of the Indian marriage market.[...] …

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Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents … framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective has predictive …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …

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