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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman's right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The former...
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019
first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124840
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017
headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …
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The effects of income and wealth on time and money transfers between parents and children
Altonji, Joseph G.; Hayashi, Fumio; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1996
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
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Dynamic aspects of family transfers
McGarry, Kathleen - 2012
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473191
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Unequal bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479350
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Elimination of social security in a dynastic framework
Fuster, Luisa; İmrohoroğlu, Ayşe; İmrohoroğlu, … - In: The review of economic studies 74 (2007) 1, pp. 113-145
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