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50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence
Iyengar, Radha; Sabik, Lindsay; Southworth, Cindy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Intimate partner violence is a serious and preventable health problem affecting more than 30 million Americans each year. We use an innovative new research design to describe the frequency and correlates of emergency and crisis intervention services provided by domestic violence programs using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775117
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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
, parental earnings and participation in the labor market in the short or long run, completed fertility, marriage or divorce. Not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969227
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252666
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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
Berman, Eli; Iannaccone, Laurence R.; Ragusa, Giuseppe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite low female labor force participation. We model three channels of religious effects on demand for children: through changing norms, reduced market wages, and reduced costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951461
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Children's Schooling and Parents' Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study
Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children's schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children...
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev; Romanov, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility histories and detailed controls. We exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992023
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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to … explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not because the latter contributes to higher … towards the adjustment of marital consumption in the face of increased divorce risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second Demographic Transition." The empirical case for a Second...
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