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Child support and educational outcomes : evidence from the British household panel survey
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784850
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Child Support Awards in Britain : An Analysis of Data from the Families and Children Study
Morris, Stephen - 2008
This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothers have an award or order but the type of award they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771218
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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein - 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771246
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Teenage Family Life, Life Chances, Lifestyles and Health : A Comparison of Two Contemporary Cohorts
Ely, M.; West, P.; Sweeting, H.; Richards, M. - 2001
The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living … represent health. The associations of family structure with these outcomes is estimated for each Study at three levels: the … overall association, that after controlling for gender and family income, and, finally, after controlling in addition for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153368
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective wellbeing go back to at most the 1970s, we can go back at least 200 years further using our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
Proto, Eugenio - 2015
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective wellbeing go back to at most the 1970s, we can go back at least 200 years further using our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016303
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Immigration, Emigration, Fungible Labour and the Retreat from Progressive Taxation
Ordower, Henry - 2021
With emphasis on the US, this chapter explores the role that taxation plays in the movement of people and capital. The chapter addresses the relationship between taxes and retention of capital, including tax incentives for capital investment, shifting tax burdens from capital to labor as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246550
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Private Vices, Public Virtues and the Emergence of the Liberal Personality in Britain 1785-1914
Outram, Quentin - 2017
The modern self is said to live a life of performance. This raises the question of how the differences and contradictions in the lives people lived were managed in former times. I focus on the distinction between public and private roles. Textual evidence suggests that widespread disagreement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127134
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Partnership dissolution : how does it affect income, employment and well-being?
Brewer, Mike; Nandi, Alita - 2014
We assess comprehensively how incomes, employment, housing, mental health and life satisfaction change following a partnership dissolution, using data from 18 waves of BHPS. We confirm that women and children see living standards decline by more than men, on average, upon separation, but find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402539
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The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-Off During the Industrial Revolution in England
Klemp, Marc - 2011
link from family size to the literacy status of offspring using data from Anglican parish registers, c. 1700 … not prenuptially conceived we are able to explore a novel source of exogenous variation in family size: marital … historical populations, we document a large and significantly negative effect of family size on children's literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124339