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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262952
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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514787
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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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Less Alimony after Divorce : Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952606
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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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Less Alimony After Divorce – Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2018
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930729
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
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/10013318249
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694836
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745678
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The Differential Influence of Women's Residential District on Their Risk of Entering Motherhood and First Marriage : A Discrete-Time Multilevel Analysis of Western German Panel Dat...
Hank, Karsten - 2009
into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German … the risk of entering first marriage, which we attribute to local nuptiality customs. Variations therein, e.g. regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089078