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Maternal employment and child outcomes : evidence from the Irish marriage bar
Mosca, Irene; O'Sullivan, Vincent; Wright, Robert E. - 2017
certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes : Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar
Mosca, Irene - 2017
certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so.It is found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945225
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …
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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar - 2011
educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …. -- Returns to Education ; Gender ; Marriage ; Philippines …
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …
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