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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...

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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 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, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510478

Should We Get Married? The Effect of Parents’ Marriage on Out-of-Wedlock Children

Liu, Shirley H.; Heiland, Frank - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2007

Study, this study investigates whether marriage after childbirth has a causal effect on early child cognitive ability, using … a treatment outcome approach to account for the selection into marriage. Comparing children with similar background … least squares models indicates that the marriage effect is greater for children whose parents transition into marriage …

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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 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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Childbearing, Marriage and Human Capital Investment

Gray, Jo Anna; Stockard, Jean; Stone, Joe - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2006

marriage and opportunities for investment in human capital. For given preferences, a decline in the marriage rate necessarily … nonmarital birth rates, as well as in the share of nonmarital births, arose primarily from changes in marriage behavior, not from …

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How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?

Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001

Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...

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Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By contrast with the United States, I find no evidence that the gender of the first child has a significant impact on the decision to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families,...

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Preocupări de demografie istorică în istoriografia românească

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The present paper wishes to be an inventory of the historical-demographical writings within Romanian landscape. We were able to identify preoccupation for demographic phenomena even since late 19th century, that have grown once with the creation of a discipline of historical demography in the...

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Family and society in north-western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th century – beginning of the 20th century). General framework: concepts, methods and approaches

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in north-western Transylvania there was a traditional rural society, except for some urban centres and their neighbouring areas (the urban character is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The village...

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Fertility Shocks and Equilibrium Marriage-Rate Dynamics

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Knowles, John - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2015

Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …

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