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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

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Risk attitude and nonmarital birth

Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2016

Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no association between risk tolerance and the probability of a cohabiting birth.

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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 since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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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 …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

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Love your leave, don't leave your love! : paid parental leave and children's living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...

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Parental leave, household specialization and children's well-being

Canaan, Serena - 2019

Many countries offer new parents long periods of paid leave. Proponents argue that parental leave programs can reduce gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that lengthy leaves can instead work against several of these...

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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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Teenage daughters as a cause of divorce

Kabátek, Jan; Ribar, David C. - 2017

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

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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 …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

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