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In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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necessary features that explain the origin of the family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent …
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Humans exhibit much more sharing of food harvested by prime-age hunter-gatherers with dependents relative to such sharing by lower-order primates. We investigate this behavior in a model in which a father provides generously to his dependent child-son in period t in the hope that this gesture...
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This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose...
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Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers' long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway … introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences … in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota. Our analysis suggests that four weeks paternity leave during the child …
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