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Do Parental Involvement Laws Deter Risky Teen Sex?
Colman, Silvie - 2013
Parental involvement (PI) laws require that physicians notify or obtain consent from a parent(s) of a minor seeking an abortion before performing the procedure. Several studies suggest that PI laws curb risky sexual behavior because teens realize that they would be compelled to discuss a...
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Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Parental Involvement Laws : Evidence from Texas
Colman, Silvie - 2007
The number of states that require parental involvement in a minor's decision to terminate a pregnancy has more than doubled since 1988. Congress is currently considering legislation that would further limit access to abortion for minors who reside in states that enforce parental involvement...
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
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Families as Roommates : Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2009
Living arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen...
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Three-Generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 : The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents
Olivetti, Claudia - 2016
This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status...
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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011
The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...
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The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates
Lee, Jin Young - 2011
allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the …
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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race
Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …
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Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the...
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Social Security and the Timing of Divorce
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010
Social Security provides spousal benefits in retirement to secondary workers in married couples based on the primary worker's earnings record. In addition, Social Security pays spousal benefits to divorced secondary workers whose marriages lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed...
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