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children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …
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their children's earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings shock we seek to … identify whether family resources have a direct effect on children's economic outcome. As in previous Scandinavian studies, we …
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-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that …' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … explained by the lack of paternal involvement that generally comes with fathers' absence, even though adolescents, especially …
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children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and …This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the … on the father's involvement in social networks. The age gap between children has a positive effect on both parents …
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produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes …
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This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
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In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …
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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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In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...
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We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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