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This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early … live in a high-crime locality would marry their daughters off at an early age to protect the chastity of their daughters … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …
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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …
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Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...
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The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary household in which no heterogeneity exists between the wife and the husband. This paper departs from the OLG model and focuses on the marital bargaining arising from the...
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prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …
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This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
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. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …
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