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This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …
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that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time …In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping … paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given …
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Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
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Using a dataset of 15,000 subjects from 32 western countries, the current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables...
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Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
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While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of 1974, which i) liberalized the existing divorce laws and ii) implemented a 6-month parental...
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1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching …The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
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This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
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