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Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country
Edmonds, Eric - 2004
have comparative advantage in work away from extended family relative to younger women. The additional income from old age …
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live : Predicted Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements Among the Oldest Old
Heiss, Florian - 2003
Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely related. This paper investigates the joint evolution of...
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Domestic Violence and Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Cesur, Resul; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Roff, Jennifer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and family-size variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The OBRA-93 expansion caused statistically significant …
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Moms' Time - Married or Not
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482535
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Is the Eldest Son Different? The Residential Choice of Siblings in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori - 2006
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements (coresidence behavior) of elderly parents and their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. Our results provide support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466006
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Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status
Reichman, Nancy E. - 2003
We use data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of poor child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth and also at how their relationships changed along a...
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Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?
De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
While the savings of retired singles tend to fall with age, those of retired couples tend to rise. We estimate a rich model of retired singles and couples with bequest motives and uncertain longevity and medical expenses. Our estimates imply that while medical expenses are an important driver of...
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Making Big Changes : The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel
Carter, Susan Payne - 2018
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Lundberg, Shelly - 2016
The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and … childbearing. The divide is between college graduates and others: those without four-year degrees have family patterns and … decreased relative to cohabitation, which offers many of the gains of co-residence with less commitment. We argue that college …
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Divorce : What Does Learning Have to Do with It?
Marinescu, Ioana - 2015
Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from...
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