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Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744576
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Less alimony after divorce: Spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763763
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform … bargaining power. Estimating di_erence-in-di_erences models I find that, indeed, wives who face a potential low alimony loss … those who have been (dis)advantaged by this reform is a new one, proposing a method that reflects the realities of alimony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892013
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform … bargaining power. Estimating difference-in-differences models I find that, indeed, wives who face a potential low alimony loss … those who have been (dis)advantaged by this reform is a new one, proposing a method that reflects the realities of alimony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780119
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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984652
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039306
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287603
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How Important Are Mental and Physical Health in Career and Family Choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061971
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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2007
-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264246
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269649