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Schooling, family background, and adoption : does family income matter?

Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...

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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior

González, Libertad (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing

Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...

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The long term effects of legalizing divorce on children

González, Libertad (contributor); … - 2008

We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the different timing of divorce legalization across European countries. Using European Community Household Panel data, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts...

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Intergenerational effects in Sweden : what can we learn from adoption data?

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effects of divorce risk on the labour supply of married couples

Papps, Kerry L. (contributor) - 2006

This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a role in the determination of work hours. Married people with spouses who earn more are predicted to devote additional time to the labour market when they are confronted with a...

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Public goods, transferable utility and divorce laws

Chiappori, Pierre-André (contributor); … - 2007

"We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect divorce rates, in the context of households which consume public goods in addition to private goods. For this result to hold, utility must be transferable both within marriage...

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The unknown immigration : incentives and family composition in intercountry adoptions to the United States

Lozano, Fernando; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2009

international adoption. We address three issues: 1) How do the demographic characteristics of the children adopted from abroad … Census and the number of visas granted by the State Department? -- Immigrant children ; international adoption …

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The ART of life : IVF or child adoption?

Gumus, Gulcin; Lee, Jungmin - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the … US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is responsive to changes in adoption markets … international adoptions while there is no substitutability between ART and adoption of related children. Our findings suggest that …

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The enfranchisement of women and the welfare state

Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor) - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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