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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …
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cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …
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This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The … results show that woman's own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females …
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dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. The … may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …
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Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
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Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …
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Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
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Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
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This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose...
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