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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility
Bloom, David E. - 1996
This paper tests the hypothesis that child support obligations impede remarriage among nonresident fathers. Hazard models fit to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and from the Survey of Income and Program Participation reveal that child support obligations deter remarriage...
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Mothers and Others : Who Invests in Children's Health?
Case, Anne - 2000
We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471070
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Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2000
This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from multiple years of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Maternal labor supply during the first three years of the child's life is predicted to have a small negative effect on...
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What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
Schoeni, Robert F. - 2000
, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were … after controlling for economic forces. These policies also appeared to have an impact on family structure …
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Public Policy and Extended Families : Evidence from South Africa
Bertrand, Marianne - 2000
developing countries. These intra-family flows mean that public policies may affect a very different group of people than the one … eligibility. We also find that the drop in labor supply diminishes with family size, as the pension money is split over more … findings suggest that power within the family might play an important role: (1) labor supply drops less when the pension is …
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Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model
McGarry, Kathleen - 2000
Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...
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Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences : Exploiting a Natural Experiment
Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999
childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471388
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Joint Life Annuities and Annuity Demand by Married Couples
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 1999
This paper explores the value of purchasing joint life annuities for married couples. It describes the existing market for joint life annuities, and summarizes the range of annuity products that are currently available to couples. It then considers the value that married couples would place on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471589
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Power Couples : Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990
Costa, Dora L. - 1999
The rise of the dual career household is a recent phenomenon spurred by the increase in married women's labor force participation rates and educational attainment rates. Compared to traditional households these households must solve a colocation problem. This paper documents trends in locational...
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A Child Support Framework Accounting for Parenting Time and Half-Siblings
Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the United States, child support guidelines sometimes generate surprising and presumably unintentional child support amounts, especially in situations with extended visitation, shared parenting, and half-siblings. These are consequences of the ad-hoc mathematical formulas that are in common...
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