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Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2018

An influential body of psychological and anthropological theories holds that societies exhibit heterogeneous cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce cooperative behavior. According to some of these theories, entire...

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Family, Community and Life-Cycle Earnings : Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers

Bingley, Paul - 2018

correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …

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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence : Learning About the Match

Anderberg, Dan - 2018

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...

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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model

Munk, Martin - 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...

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Sibling Spillovers

Black, Sandra E. - 2017

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …

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Optimal Timing in Rotten Kid Families

Faria, João Ricardo - 2017

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …

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Love Your Leave, Don't Leave Your Love! Paid Parental Leave and Children's Living Arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 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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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions : Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure

McGuigan, Martin - 2014

University fees have recently trebled in England, prompting fears that young people may be put off from participating in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the...

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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The Political Choice of Social Long Term Care Transfers When Family Gives Time and Money

De Donder, Philippe - 2015

parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children … income class may give no family help at all, and its elderly members would be the main beneficiaries of the introduction of … most countries. First, social transfers are dominated by help in time by the family when the intrinsic preference of …

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