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Local crime and early marriage : evidence from India
Sarkar, Sudipa - 2021
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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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
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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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
consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …
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Leaving home with a partner
Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; … - 2015
Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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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 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 recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive
Kondo, Ayako - 2016
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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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 …-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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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...
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