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This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
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Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at … invest in the human capital of parents and children. These decisions result from a variety of anticipated post …
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programs that target children. …
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than an increase in the availability of publicly funded childcare slots. Using ECHP data I �nd that families with children … with children in which the wife works given the combination of, on the one hand, substantial help �ows in the form of …
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German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is … true for mothers with children aged three to mandatory school age. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts … model is used to evaluate two policy reforms concerning the supply of subsidized child care for children aged zero to two …
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German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is … true for mothers with children aged three to mandatory school age. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts … model is used to evaluate two recently passed policy reforms concerning the supply of subsidized child care for children …
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The present paper wishes to be an inventory of the historical-demographical writings within Romanian landscape. We were able to identify preoccupation for demographic phenomena even since late 19th century, that have grown once with the creation of a discipline of historical demography in the...
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In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in north-western Transylvania there was a traditional rural society, except for some urban centres and their neighbouring areas (the urban character is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The village...
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The parish registers of civil status, although the main sources of documentation for historical demography, are used with significant results by the other sciences such as history, ethnography, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.. The perspectives of approaching the rural community and...
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This paper studies the population estimates for 1500 of the current territory of Colombia. It reviews the literature and analyzes critically the methods and sources used in the field. We conclude that there is no consensus on population estimates for the period, much less with respect to the...
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