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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage : A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Manley, David - 2018
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926709
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Broadway, Barbara - 2015
Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023769
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The Effect of Family Disruption on Children's Personality Development : Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
Prevoo, Tyas - 2014
This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and death – on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039590
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A Theory of Child Adoption
Bethmann, Dirk - 2012
treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104054
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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio : The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
Sun, Ang - 2014
This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052555
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The ART of Life : IVF or Child Adoption?
Gumus, Gulcin - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the … US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is responsive to changes in adoption markets … international adoptions while there is no substitutability between ART and adoption of related children. Our findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147554
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How Unilateral Divorce Affects Children
Caceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2021
Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316568
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The Long Term Effects of Legalizing Divorce on Children
Gonzalez, Libertad; Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2021
We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the different timing of divorce legalization across European countries. Using European Community Household Panel data, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324882
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038