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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894547
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586050
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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
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767952
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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
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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
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work Among US Immigrants
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837672
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work among US Immigrants
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837918