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more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
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size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …
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This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the 1960s to test the hypothesis that higher sex ratios lead to husbands (wives) having a lower (higher) share of couple's time in leisure and higher (lower) share of the couple's...
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We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all-native couples using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18. We find that when intermarried to a native man, immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent that,...
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Using data from the 2003-14 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), this paper examines the relationship between the state unemployment rate and the time that opposite-sex couples with children spend on childcare activities, and how this varies by the socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity of...
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