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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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Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with …
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Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …
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increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …
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sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …
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This paper analyzes how fertility preference affects individuals' marriage outcomes. By using the selective Two … fertility preference, Han Chinese and only child men searched longer and bought more expensive houses before marriage, and … transferred more to their wives in terms of income and education …
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We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economicpreferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the...
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
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Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...
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