measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …

impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example … children enter school.We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre …

Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a … neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the …

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … to larger economic polarization among children in Swedish metropolitan regions …