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The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems

Li, Jui-Chung Allen - RAND - 2007

Social scientists and commentators disagree on how much of the association between parental divorce and child well …-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well … Survey of Youth, 1979, and found that parental divorce is associated with a higher level of behavior problems in children …

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A Collective Labor Supply Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities by Means of Panel Data

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - RAND - 2006

The authors study labor supply of elderly couples by means of a collective model. The model allows individuals to enjoy leisure more (or less) in company of their spouse (complementarity/ externalities in leisure). Preferences and the intra-household bargaining process are identified by using...

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Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision

Powell, David; Shan, Hui - RAND - 2010

The link between taxes and occupational choices is central for understanding the welfare impacts of income taxes. Just as taxes distort the labor-leisure decision, they also distort the wage-amenity decision. Yet, there have been few studies on the full response along this margin. When tax rates...

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Marriage, Assets, and Savings.

Smith, James P.; Lupton, Joseph - RAND - 1999

principally along standard demographic lines--whether they marry, divorce, separate, or become widowed. Recently, new data have …

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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women

Loughran, David S.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2007

The authors use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Their estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers...

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Grandparent Care and Welfare: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy on Split and Three Generation Families.

Cox, Amy G.; Pebley, Anne R. - RAND - 1999

Grandparent caregiving has received increased attention in recent years, and grandparent-grandchild families have generated several public policy concerns, including whether grandparent-led families face barriers to obtaining public assistance. The authors address this question by comparing the...

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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage.

Loughran, David S. - RAND - 2000

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States. This paper uses a model of female marital search to demonstrate why these two trends could be related. Elementary job search theory, under risk-neutrality, predicts search...

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Marital Status and Earnings in Developed Countries.

Schoeni, R.F. - RAND - 1996

When estimating earnings equations for men in the United States, a dichotomous variable for whether or not the man is currently married is often included as a regressor. The coefficient estimate for this variable is most usually large and significant. However, there is rarely much discussion of...

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Marital Disruption and Mortality.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - RAND - 1996

Both men and women appear to benefit from being married. This article uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors- financial well-being, living arrangements and marital history - account for this relationship.

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Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage.

Bergstrom, T; Schoeni, R-F - RAND - 1996

This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are valued more for their ability to bear children and men are valued more for their ability to make money. Men connot reveal their labor market ability to potential spouses until...

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