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Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
Weiss, Yoram - 2013
We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in 2006. Because of large differences in male income between China and HK, marriages of HK men with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084144
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On the Origin of the Family
Francesconi, Marco - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153016
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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins
Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021
We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216567
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996540
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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence
Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022
This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078013
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Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
Collado, Dolores; Ortuno-Ortin, Ignacio; Stuhler, Jan - 2022
We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This horizontal approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079418
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120131
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Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply : The Case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … (focusing on developed countries) that has found an inverse relationship between fertility and labor supply is applicable to … least developed countries. The research into fertility and labor supply has relied on a variety of methodologies for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765218
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046678
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080128