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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce

González, Libertad - 2014

Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...

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World War II, the baby boom and employment : county level evidence

Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United States. We rely on the number of casualties at the county-level and use a difference-in-differences strategy. While most counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following...

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World War II, the baby boom and employment: county level evidence

Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021

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Maternity leave

Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a …

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With a little help from my mother : the matrilineal advantage in European grand parenting

Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2021

This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE). We show that maternal grandparents look after grandchildren and provide financial or...

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Stable income, stable family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and …

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men

Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

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Maternity leave and paternity leave : evidence on the economic impact of legislative changes in high income countries

Canaan, Serena; Lassen, Anne Sophie; Rosenbaum, Philip; … - 2022

Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...

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