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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisionsin Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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Uncertain Paternity, Mating Market Failure, and the Institution of Marriage

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty …

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Divorced fathers’ proximity and children’s long run outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian registry data

Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business …

This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers’ proximity and children’slong-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow(from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway inthe years 1975-1979...

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Child Support Awards in Britain: An Analysis of Datafrom the Families and Children Study

Morris, Stephen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where thefather is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Datafrom the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothershave an award or order but the type of award they...

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...

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Fertility Differences between Married andCohabiting Couples : A Switching Regression Analysis

Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. Weexplore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using aswitching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of differentfactors through a...

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World War II, Missing Men, and Out-of-wedlock Childbearing

Kvasnicka, Michael; Bethmann, Dirk - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

increase furthermore appears to depend on the future marriage market prospects that women at the timecould expect to face in … marriage market conditions, therefore, and foreseeable improvements in the future marriage market prospectsof women appear to …

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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...

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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and ParentalInvestment in Children

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britainon Couples: Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...

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