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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households' responses to overseas members' economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work in dozens...
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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being
Aizer, Anna - 2005
Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock...
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Child Support : Interaction Between Private and Public Transfers
Lerman, Robert I. - 2001
Child support is a private transfer that is integral to the means-tested public transfer system. Support payments generally lower the budget costs of welfare as well the incentives for parents to participate. The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, which establishes and enforces support...
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Understanding Child Support Trends : Economic, Demographic, and Political Contributions
Case, Anne - 2000
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine trends in child support payments over the past thirty years and to assess five different explanations for these trends: inflation, the shift to unilateral divorce, changes in marital status composition, changes in men's and...
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Dunning Delinquent Dads : The Effects of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Receipt by Never Married Women
Freeman, Richard B. - 1998
Since the mid-1970s, the number of single-parent families has increased greatly in the U.S., contributing to the nation's child poverty problem. In response, the federal government and various states have tried to increase child support payments from non-custodial parents. Using data from...
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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility
Bloom, David E. - 1996
This paper tests the hypothesis that child support obligations impede remarriage among nonresident fathers. Hazard models fit to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and from the Survey of Income and Program Participation reveal that child support obligations deter remarriage...
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Asian Demography and Foreign Capital Dependence
Higgins, Matthew - 1996
Ansley Coale and Edgar Hoover were right about Asia. Rising fertility and declining infant mortality have had a profound impact on Asian savings, investment and foreign capital dependency since Coale and Hoover wrote in 1958. We argue that: Much of the impressive rise in Asian savings rates...
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Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations : Evidence from Administrative Data
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016
We leverage non-linearities in Danish child support guidelines and rich administrative data to provide causal estimates of parental behavioral responses to child support obligations. We estimate that a 1,000 DKK ($149) increase in a father's obligation is associated with a 506 DKK ($75) increase...
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana
Levinsohn, James A. - 2006
increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466247