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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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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement
Chen, Stacey; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chen, Yen-Chien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950657
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Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large policy changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951258
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations
Feyrer, James; Sacerdote, Bruce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
the burden of child care at home and fertility is higher than in the middle regime. This progression has been observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084506
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The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
Bertrand, Marianne; Pan, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353480
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Terms of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model of Sex and Matching
Arcidiacono, Peter; Beauchamp, Andrew W.; McElroy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We develop a directed search model of relationship formation which can disentangle male and female preferences for types of partners and for different relationship terms using only a cross-section of observed matches. Individuals direct their search to a particular type of match on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695041
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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
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634700
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Economic Conditions and Child Abuse
Lindo, Jason M.; Schaller, Jessamyn; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse … this paper, we address this seeming contradiction. Using county-level child abuse data spanning 1996 to 2009 from the … builds on family-time-use models and emphasizes differential risks of abuse associated with a child's time spent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641726
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Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India
Oster, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
to the same conclusion. This paper analyzes the relationship between access to child health investments and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718445
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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
may provide an alternative explanation for the well-established finding that child health improves when mothers control a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829935