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This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the … to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers …
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deterministically chosen but the children's future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in …
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in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … marital patterns by education for men.*Published: Adam Isen & Betsey Stevenson, 2008."Women's Education and Family Behavior …
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Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …
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We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...
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We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …
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Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on … equity is virtually impossible to satisfy. The assessment on whether a given family taxation scheme attains horizontal equity … objectives cannot therefore be independent from the assessment on the nature of fertility behaviour. -- family taxation …
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Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...
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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor … supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
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