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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2021

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

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Children of a (Policy) Revolution : The Introduction of Universal Child Care and Its Effect on Fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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From Politics to the Family : How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to address this question. During the divided...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

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Children of a (Policy) Revolution: The Introduction of Universal Child Care and its Effect on Fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and …

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From Politics to the Family: How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2010

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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices

Felfe, Christina - 2016

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …

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Family-Specific Investments and Divorce : A Theory of Dynamically Inconsistent Household Behavior

Anderberg, Dan - 2016

-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …

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