Showing 1 - 10 of 1,483
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282421
the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363961
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether … divorce. This results holds also conditioning on the overall share of female co-workers in a firm. We find that parental … divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475183
the extension in the school day by 3.5 hours leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206326
Information quality affects matching and marital outcomes. We show in a simple two-dimensional matching model that a noisier cue for one trait leads to a shift in sorting tradeoff toward the other, lowers average welfare but the impact is asymmetric. To test the predictions, we explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084820
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using … be trusted.” The main explanatory variables include the occurrence of parental divorce for the whole sample and the age … generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121549
Public policy addressing the harmful practice of adolescent marriage tends to leave out men, as prospective grooms. Using micro-level data from Nigeria in combination with plausible instrumental variables, we find that a male's education significantly decreases the likelihood that he marries an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923743
Im Jahr 2003 wurden 88,4% aller Scheidungen in Österreich im Einvernehmen geschieden. Die einvernehmliche Scheidung erfordert--wenn beide Gatten die Scheidung wünschen--nur eine Vereinbarung der wesentlichen Scheidungsfolgen. Anhand von Scheidungsakten der Jahre 1997 bis 2003 eines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748290
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517871