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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation

Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …

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A lost generation? Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

(time and material support),family background, and literacy and numeracy test scores. I find that although preexisting …

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Smoke signals : the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior

Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002

influencing youth smoking outside from the family context. Thus policies targeted at reducing juvenile smoking may fail, if …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

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 educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

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Do laws shape attitudes? Evidence from same-sex relationship recognition policies in Europe

Aksoy, Cevat G.; Carpenter, Christopher; de Haas, Ralph; … - 2018

Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens' attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal same-sex relationship recognition policies (SSRRPs) and attitudes towards sexual minorities in...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work: Panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption

Grimm, Michael - 2006

In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

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Patrilocal residence and female labour supply

Landmann, Andreas; Seitz, Helke; Steiner, Susan - 2017

Many people around the world live in patrilocal societies. Patrilocality prescribes that women move in with their husbands' parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labour market consequences, in particular for the women. We...

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