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-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave differently if she is optimizing subject to a … family constitution, than if she is moved by either altruistic or exchange motivations. The circumstance is the presence of a … family constitution exists, but will have the opposite effect if the transfer is either a gift, or payments for services …
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children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …
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children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536010
, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers disagree on whether to have children, on how many children to have, and on … when to have them. In this paper, we review existing work that brings models of intrahousehold conflict and bargaining to …
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, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers disagree on whether to have children, on how many children to have, and on … when to have them. In this paper, we review existing work that brings models of intrahousehold conflict and bargaining to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105412
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …
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different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
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theories is that they view factors that determine the compatibility of women's career and family goals as key drivers of … fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …
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couples whose ideal family size differs by five children or more. This disagreement between spouses suggests that the extent …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
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