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Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax
Ilin, Elias; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pitts, Melinda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married - using SCF and ACS data. Our measure incorporates all major and most minor U.S. tax and benefit programs. And it assumes clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the...
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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure
Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …
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Fertility Beliefs and Outcomes : The Role of Relationship Status and Attractiveness
Gong, Yifan; Skura, Tyler; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Unique data from the Berea Panel Study provides new evidence about fertility outcomes before age 30 and beliefs about these outcomes elicited soon after college graduation. Comparing outcomes and beliefs yields a measure of belief accuracy. Individuals who are unmarried and not in relationships...
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Fortunate Families? : The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men … winners is that wealth increases their short-run (but not long-run) divorce risk. Our results for divorce are consistent with … a model where the wealthier spouse retains most of his/her wealth in divorce. In support of this assumption, we show …
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...
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The Effect of Financial Resources on Homeownership, Marriage, and Fertility : Evidence from State Lotteries
Bulman, George; Goodman, Sarena; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper leverages the universe of U.S. tax data and state lottery wins between 2000 and 2019 to estimate the causal effect of financial resources on three key lifecycle outcomes for young adults. We find large and persistent effects on homeownership, with a response function that exhibits...
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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment
Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse … less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with unilateral divorce laws--especially individuals who were exposed … to the laws when making educational choices and who live in states requiring an even split of assets upon divorce …
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Intrahousehold Welfare : Theory and Application to Japanese Data
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas; Okuyama, Yoko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In this paper we develop a novel approach to measuring individual welfare within households, recognizing that individuals may have both different preferences (particularly regarding public consumption) and differential access to resources. We construct a money metric measure of welfare that...
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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a...
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