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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Who takes care of the children? : the quantity-quality model revisited
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 2000
combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity quality trade off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …
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Women's Inheritance Rights and Fertility Decisions : Evidence from India
Bose, Nayana; Das, Shreyasee - 2021
their fertility choices in the context of son-preference in rural India. We use the NFHS-3 data and exploit the variation in … counterparts. We find evidence that the fertility increase was a result of women being able to use the stopping rule more … allowed women to increase fertility to realize her son preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241507
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On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of tied transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293715
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Time for Children, a Study of Parents' Time Allocation
Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001
Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321803
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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2007
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating market failure that arises from incomplete information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263679
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264270
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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291387
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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage
Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating market failure that arises from incomplete information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633544
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Paternal uncertainty and the economics of mating, marriage, and parental investment in children
Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2005
We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women derive utility from consumption and reproductive success,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323030