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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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The Good Wife? : Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household

Buchmann, Nina; Dupas, Pascaline; Ziparo, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are entrusted with a larger budget share. We show, first...

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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Kinship structure - how extended families are organized - varies across societies and may have implications for outcomes within the household. A key source of variation in kinship structure is whether lineage and inheritance are traced through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as...

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The Economics of Family Structure

Neal, Derek - 2001

A significant literature in demography and demographic history documents clear relationships between the supply of men with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative to traditional marriage, circumstances that impede...

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Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting : Theory and an Application to UK Data

Fernandez, Raquel - 2001

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter both because of their household income and because parental human capital determines the expected value of a child's disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show...

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Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions : The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions

Blau, Francine D. - 2000

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is regressed on personal characteristics and MSA indicators,...

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The Influence of Nonmarital Childbearing on the Formation of First Marriages

Bennett, Neil G. - 1993

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document a negative association between these variables -- controlling for a variety of potentially confounding influences -- in several large survey data sets for the United States. We...

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Familial Love and Intertemporal Optimality

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1981

This paper analyzes the intertemporal efficiency and optimality of steady states within overlapping-generations models in which the utility of individual working couples , depends on the consumption of their parents and children as well as their own consumption. The analysis considers both a...

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Optimal Tax Treatment of the Family : Married Couples

Boskin, Michael J. - 1979

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples. For a population of taxpaying couples which differ in earning capacity, we derive the optimal tax rates for each potential earner. These rates depend crucially upon own and...

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