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Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018
Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931620
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Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mumin; Turan, Belgi - 2020
In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association between economically challenging conditions in-utero and child's birth weight. First, we utilize the temporal and spatial variations of...
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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School Starting Age and Infant Health
Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2023
We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469441
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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes
Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018
Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881325
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School starting age and infant health
Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2023
We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444910
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce
Halla, Martin - 2011 - Forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association
of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …
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Which children stabilize marriage?
Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - 2013
Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229313
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
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