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A model of endogenous divorce and endogenous fertility
Fan, Chengze Simon - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 1, pp. 101-117
This paper examines the interaction between decisions on divorce and fertility. The analysis generates two major implications. Firstly, it complements the existing literature on endogenous fertility to explain why population growth and economic growth can be negatively correlated after an...
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"Living in sin" and marriage: A matching model
Gu, Xinhua; Sahib, Padma Rao - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 2, pp. 261-282
This paper develops a two sided matching model of premarital cohabitation and marriage in which premarital cohabitation … classes formed by marital unions and cohabiting unions. This implies that some cohabiting unions progress to marriage while …
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The effect of divorce costs on marriage formation and dissolution
Bougheas, Spiros; Georgellis, Yannis - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 3, pp. 489-498
individuals in the marriage market, we use a search theoretic model of marriage formation and dissolution to examine the effect of … costs not only affect the probability of divorce but also the probability of marriage. Interestingly, to what extent divorce … costs affect the marital status distribution depends on the information regarding the quality of the potential marriage that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005396042
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The cost of children: May the collective approach to household behavior help?
Bourguignon, FranÚois - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 4, pp. 503-521
The collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect the general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169413
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Childhood family structure and young adult behaviors
Yeung, Wei-Jun J.; Duncan, Greg J.; Hill, Martha S. - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 271-299
This paper examines a wide variety of forms, and full histories, of family structure to test existing theories of family influences and identify needs for new theories. The focus is on links between childhood family structure and both completed schooling and risk of a nonmarital birth. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395915
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The empowerment of women, fertility, and child mortality: Towards a theoretical analysis
Eswaran, Mukesh - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 433-454
This paper examines one avenue through which female autonomy impinges on fertility and child mortality in developing countries. A simple model is set out in which couples are motivated to have children for old age security purposes. The decisions of a couple regarding fertility and allocation of...
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The institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 24 (2011) 3, pp. 1005-1032
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Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 2, pp. 423-462
This paper investigates how rural families in China use marital and post-marital transfers to compensate their sons for unequal schooling expenditures. Using a common behavioral framework, we derive two methods for estimating the relationship between parental transfers and schooling investments:...
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Quasi-experimental evidence for the causal link between fertility and subjective well-being
Priebe, Jan - In: Journal of Population Economics 33 (2020) 3, pp. 839-882
This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi-experimental variation due to preferences for a mixed sibling sex composition (having at least one child of each sex). Based on a large sample of women from 35 developing countries, I...
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Running hard and falling behind: A welfare analysis of two-earner families
Moore, Robert E.; Kassis, Mary Mathewes; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 3, pp. 237-250
This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a two-earner household. We find evidence...
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