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Love your Leave, Don't Leave your Love! Paid Parental Leave and Children's Living Arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...
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Globalization, Gender, and the Family
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hale - 2019
This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy’s fertility rate and family structure because it influences work-life balance. Employing population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee linked data for Denmark, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052841
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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2007
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264246
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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266066
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The effect of child care on family structure: Theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281794
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Child Marriage : Evidence from the Iranian Provinces
Asna-ashary, Mozhgan - 2020
We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty … significant determinants of child marriage. Our results which control for province fixed effects (e.g. local cultural norms or … and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …
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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866408
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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322784
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615932
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size: 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018329