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Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Assortative mating and earnings inequality in France

Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2017

earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...

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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy : Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

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How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...

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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...

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