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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study
Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020
Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234465
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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study
Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020
Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237067
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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Which children stabilize marriage?
Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - 2013
Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229313
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804345
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Divorce law reform, family stability, and children's longterm outcomes
Hertegård, Edvin - 2024
While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce …. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of 1974, which i) liberalized the existing … divorce laws and ii) implemented a 6-month parental reconsideration period for divorce. I exploit quasi-experimental policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552797
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The Economic Consequences of Unilateral Divorce for Children
Johnson, John H.; Mazingo, Christopher J. - 2000
This paper provides new evidence on the economic consequences of unilateral divorce laws on the future labor market … divorce state as a child on education, earnings, and marital status. Women with many years of childhood exposure to unilateral … divorce laws have lower wages and have completed less schooling. However, there is no statistically significant effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151184
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938781
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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men
Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115147
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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021
This paper examines the effect of the introduction of a 1982 maternity benefit program on childbearing, employment and marital stability in the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program included one year of partially paid leave and a small cash payment at birth. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234563