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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction : A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew - 2007
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318249
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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Later-Life Economic Consequences
Barrett, Alan - 2012
The impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on later-life health outcomes has been studied extensively and links with depression, anxiety and self-harm have been established. However, there has been relatively little research undertaken on the possible impact of CSA on later-life economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110847
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137248
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The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2012
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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What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?
Morrill, Melinda Sandler - 2012
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor … sets of results for family time together …
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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...
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The Unknown Immigration : Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010
Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...
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On the Origin of the Family
Francesconi, Marco - 2009
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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