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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes

Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgment? : evidence from earnings-related parental leave

Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022

A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system - which increased mother's income and reduced legal...

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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgement? : evidence from earnings-related parental leave

Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022

A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system which increased mother's income and reduced legal father's...

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Having a Daughter Reduces Male Violence Against a Partner

Somville, Vincent - 2020

In a global sample of around 310,000 couples, men whose firstborn child is a girl (instead of a boy) are 10 percent less likely to strangle their partner each year. The probability that they kick, punch, or slap her also decreases by about 4 percent. These are causal effects under the assumption...

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Family structure and child cognitive outcomes : evidence from Canadian longitudinal data

Ferrer, Ana M.; Pan, Yazhuo - 2018

This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected on children and their families biennially since 1994, we investigate the association...

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Family Structure Transitions and Changes in Maternal Resources and Well-Being

Osborne, Cynthia; Berger, Lawrence; Magnuson, Katherine - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010

This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to examine whether family instability is associated with changes in perceived social support, material hardship, maternal depression, and parenting stress among mothers of young children. In addition to accounting for the...

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Childhood family structure and young adult behaviors

Yeung, Wei-Jun J.; Duncan, Greg J.; Hill, Martha S. - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 271-299

This paper examines a wide variety of forms, and full histories, of family structure to test existing theories of family influences and identify needs for new theories. The focus is on links between childhood family structure and both completed schooling and risk of a nonmarital birth. Using a...

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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India

Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …

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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...

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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?

González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021

more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …

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