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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Following in Your Father's Footsteps : A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and Their Sons

Amin, Vikesh - 2011

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...

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Mothers Do Matter : New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Amin, Vikesh - 2011

Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent studies based on much larger samples of twins from...

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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012

overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design … for one month of governmental paid paternity leave, while fathers of children born before this cutoff were not. There is a … sharp increase in fathers taking paternity leave immediately after the reform, with take up rising from 3% to 35%. While …

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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Antman, Francisca - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...

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On the Origin of the Family

Francesconi, Marco - 2009

necessary features that explain the origin of the family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent …

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Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave : Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes

Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2009

Many OECD countries have implemented policies to induce couples to share parental leave. This paper investigates how responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are forced to look at one of the Nordic countries which...

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Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2018

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...

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Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?

Farré, Lidia - 2019

We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent …) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have another child compared to (just) ineligible parents. We also show that …

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