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What is the appropriate amount of child support to require in particular cases? How should we take account, if at all … turn on our purpose in requiring support payments in the first place. But while fixing the amount of child support can be … fundamental policy purpose that explain why we require child support, shows that the federally-required guidelines that determine …
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In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling … subsidized child human capital through schools and public health programs, which has encouraged parents to demand fewer, higher …
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private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling … subsidized child human capital through schools and public health programs, which has encouraged parents to demand fewer, higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124545
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206820
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324977
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235545
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126938
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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