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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital break-up throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … supply, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …
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Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …
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Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics
Edlund, Lena Cecilia; Haider, Laila; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Political survey data for nine West European countries show that women have become increasingly left-wing compared to men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the decline in marriage in these countries. This pattern is mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions...
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the role of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill...
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
allocated custody in case they divorce. We show that: (i) the optimal allocation of custodial rights depends on both preferences …
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Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive skills can lead to a better understanding of children’s long run...
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Fertility Control Early in Marriage in Ireland a Century Ago
Duffy, Niall; O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123619
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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