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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969380
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in … distribution of completed childbearing around a two-child mode and a decrease in childlessness; (2) the decoupling of marriage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969391
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War
Angrist, Joshua; John H. Johnson, IV - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from home for an extended period of time, so Gulf War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085207
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Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?
Kuziemko, Ilyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
I develop a model in which a child's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in his household to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if children's human capital substitutes for that of adults...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223321
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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
Tekin, Erdal; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325537
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634700
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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being
Aizer, Anna; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714556