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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...
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the extension in the school day by 3.5 hours leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows …
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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 …
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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. …
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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
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/10012990882
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...
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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 …
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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To begin with, we sketch a general multilevel model of regional social contexts and individual family formation behavior, where particular attention is paid to the determinants of the actor's situation. Then a set of bridge hypotheses is proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the...
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