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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …

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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833

Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women’s total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice...

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Fathers' leave, fathers' involvement and child development : are they related? ; evidence from four OECD countries

Huerta, Maria del Carmen; Adema, Willem; Baxter, Jennifer; … - 2013

Previous research has shown that fathers taking some time off work around childbirth, especially periods of leave of 2 or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are...

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The opt-out revolution : a descriptive analysis

Antecol, Heather - 2010

Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution - highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780034

Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335

Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486

Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275

The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337799