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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971410
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123548
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792472
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246603
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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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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers
Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032867
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Family Matters
Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people’s educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991–5) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is...
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...
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