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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568812
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422608
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
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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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345876
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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": for whom? : evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2013
We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774345
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363961
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471012
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
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Population genetics and economic growth
Zak, Paul J.; Park, Kwang Woo - 2000 - This version June 3, 2000
This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner, work for firms, consume goods, save for old age...
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