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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377147
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435923
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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020
one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270851
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Intergenerational economic mobility and assortative mating
Ermisch, John (contributor); Francesconi, Marco (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by assortative mating. We find that assortative mating plays an important role. On average about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002390035
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2006
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304441
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Mother's autonomy and child welfare : a new measure and some new evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - 2011
We construct a new, direct measure of female autonomy in household decision-making by creating an index from the principal components of a variety of household variables on which mother of a child takes decision. We then examine its impacts on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308908
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Remittances and gender : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308945
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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten - 2002
This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of social interaction and culture may translate into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435834
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistence and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305682
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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
composition within the household. -- Optimal taxation of married couples ; joint taxation ; labor supply estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678