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The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
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-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930–34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission …
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Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries … migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly … der Heimat zurückgebliebenen Kinder bereitstellen. Zusätzlich zu diesem Einkommenseffekt beeinflusst die Abwesenheit eines …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414808
sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die … Eltern zu Hause mit den Kindern verbringt substituiert. Die Eltern reduzieren auch die Zeit für Freizeit und soziale Kontakte …
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This study examines the impact of extreme weather events on violence against children inflicted by adult household … significantly increases the probability of children from pastoralist households to become victim of psychological and physical …Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen extremer Wetterereignisse auf Gewalt gegen Kinder durch erwachsene …
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
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We study the role of heterogeneous preferences at the spousal level and that of spousal mutual insurance against wage shocks for couples’ labor supply in a time-use model. We estimate the model for couples in the German Time-Use Survey with Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific...
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I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that …
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