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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289970
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Child support and educational outcomes: Evidence from the British household panel survey
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277855
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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 Louise; Sun, … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984585
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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 health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …, not be advantageous. -- child outcomes ; parental separation ; distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656608
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004
It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....
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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size: 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018329
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
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Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Nollenberger, Natalia; Roff, … - 2020
We study the effect of a policy change that exogenously shifted bargaining power from mothers to fathers on intimate partner violence. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment based on a series of reforms in Spain that shifted the custody decision from being unilaterally determined by the mother to...
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