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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004

within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

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The role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States: a review of the recent literature

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2008

This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275047

Intra-family transfers in Japan: Intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact

Yamada, Ken - 2003

Classified broadly, two motives for intra-family transfers exist: altruism and selfishness. This paper examines two selfish hypotheses - the exchange motive (strategic bequest motive)and the demonstration effect - using a new Japanese micro data set. My analysis of the determinants of...

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Families, time and well-being in Canada

Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we document changes in the availability of time and money in Canadian two-parent families between 1971 and 2006 as the paid work hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid...

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Efficiency in family bargaining: living arrangements and caregiving decisions of adult children and disabled elderly parents

Pezzin, Liliana E.; Pollak, Robert A.; Schone, Barbara S. - 2007

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

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Mother's autonomy and child welfare: A new measure and some new evidence

Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - 2011

We construct a new, direct measure of female autonomy in household decision-making by creating an index from the principal components of a variety of household variables on which mother of a child takes decision. We then examine its impacts on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find...

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Religion, human capital investments and the family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2009

, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment. It also identifies gaps in our knowledge, and suggests agenda items …

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Couple's relative labor supply in intermarriage

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011

In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

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Are intra-household allocations policy neutral? Theory and empirical evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2011

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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