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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126156
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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior
González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071224
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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745154
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The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain
Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
1945-60 and Cohort 1961-77 in order to capture social changes. The paper focuses on the timing of marriage and the birth of … a first, second and third child using a Cox hazard approach. Results show that female employment delays marriage in … participation. Female labour market instability plays an important role in family formation, especially by putting off marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745947
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Child support awards in Britain: an analysis of data from the families and children study
Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothers have an award or order but the type of award they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746092
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Unemployment and domestic violence: theory and evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746190
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Intergenerational transfers and household structure: why do most Italian youths live with their parents?
Manacorda, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
85 percent of Italian men aged 18-33 live with their parents. We argue that Italian parents like to live with their children and a rise in their income makes it possible for them to offer their children higher consumption in exchange for their presence at home. Children prefer to live on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746329
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … has little effect on mean income, it nonetheless increases poverty and inequality. These findings imply that divorce has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746404
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746483
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Non-residential fatherhood and child involvement: evidence from the millennium cohort study
Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neither cohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood that commences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Study to examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126055