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Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority. A similar pattern is observed in many other countries as well. In Norway,...
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This paper analyzes male fertility, focusing especially on multi-partner fertility, for cohorts born 1955 to 1984. We … having more children in stable unions. Multi-partner fertility, on the other hand, is positively associated with both …
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-2008 in Norway, applying discrete-time hazard regressions to highly accurate data from population registers. The results show … that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …
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In this paper we discuss a particular marriage model, i.e., a model for the number of marriages for each age … assumptions about the distribution of the preferences, a convenient expression for the corresponding structural marriage model …. Data from the Norwegian Population Register for nine years are applied to estimate the model. We subsequently test the …
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In spite of more symmetric parental roles in couples, shared residence is still practiced by a minority of parents following partnership dissolution in Norway, and the same is true for father sole custody. Utilising a survey of parents living apart in 2004, we find that shared residence is...
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high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into …
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Analyses of contact frequency between non-resident fathers and children are often based on samples of non-resident fathers or resident mothers only. It is well established that non-resident fathers tend to report more contact than the resident mothers do, but it is less clear whether it matters...
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Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households. This paper asks why, and how these differences...
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of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …
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We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different … policies: parental leave, formal childcare, and the childcare cash benefit. Norwegian family policy has been considered … dualistic, giving priority to both dual-earner support and general family support. Our data are administrative register data …
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