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Mother's autonomy and child welfare : a new measure and some new evidence

Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - 2011

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … Empowerment ; Principal Component ; Education ; Instrumental Variable …

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...

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Does intermarriage pay off? : A panel data analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

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The weight of the crisis : evidence from newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010

Argentina hit world news headlines in 2002 due to the largest debt-default in history and a sudden economic collapse reminiscent of economic statistics from the Great Depression. In this article, we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious, but that may linger for...

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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...

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Marriage matters spousal similarity in life satisfaction

Schimmack, Ulrich (contributor); Lucas, Richard (contributor) - 2006

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were based on married couples (N = 847) in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Concurrent spousal similarity was considerably higher than oneyear retest similarity, revealing...

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Who marries differently-aged spouses? : Earnings, ability and appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2011

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present …

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The differential influence of women's residential district on their risk of entering motherhood and first marriage : a discrete time multilevel analysis of Western German panel dat...

Hank, Karsten - 2002

into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German … the risk of entering first marriage, which we attribute to local nuptiality customs. Variations therein, e.g. regarding …

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Labour supply of married females in Estonia

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Koulikov, Dmitri - 2003

In this paper we estimate the labor supply function for married females in Estonia. Particularly, we are interested in determining the elasticities of the weekly supply ofhours with respect to hourly wage rates and with respect to nonlabor income. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In...

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