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Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality accessible to the public, QRIS attempts to alter parental preferences for quality-related attributes...
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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …
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effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …
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consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform …
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I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...
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This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...
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Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …
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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...
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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 family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent … the emergence of the family. When we consider a kinship system in which an adult male transfers resources not just to his …
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family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …
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