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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Can pro-marriage policies work? An analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
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Parental leave policies and parents' employment and leave-taking
Han, Wen-Jui; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2007
Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are associated with parental leave...
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Public policies and women's employment after childbearing
Han, Wen-Jui; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2009
This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the budget constraint in different ways. The policy environment has important effects, particularly...
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Age at marriage and marital instability: revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael hypothesis
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2006
An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332991
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Marriage and divorce since World War II: analyzing the role of technological progress on the formation of households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2008
, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor … own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of marriage and divorce, which …
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008
more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …
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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce
Halla, Martin - 2009
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …
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The role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States: a review of the recent literature
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2008
This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275047
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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability: Evidence from the 2006-2008 national survey of family growth
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - 2011
One of the most salient demographic trends in the U.S. landscape in recent decades has been the pronounced increase in age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability using data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family...
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