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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

Halla, Martin - 2015

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343921

World war 2, missing men, and out-of-wedlock childbearing

Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor); Bethmann, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls … of men to women significantly increased the nonmarital fertility ratio at mid century, a result that proves robust to the … use of alternative sex ratio definitions, post-war measures of fertility, and estimation samples. The magnitude of this …

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …

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The effect of joint custody on family outcomes

Halla, Martin - 2011 - Last update: 2011/04/19

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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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

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Childlessness and economic development : a survey

Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019

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