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Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; … - 2015

Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...

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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 more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …

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The lost generation in Europe? : the economic crisis and starting a family ; conference paper

Schaffner, Sandra - 2014 - Preliminary results

Young adults are the most hit by the current economic crisis. This can be observed in high youth unemployment rates in countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based...

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Pension and the family

Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - 2014

The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary household in which no heterogeneity exists between the wife and the husband. This paper departs from the OLG model and focuses on the marital bargaining arising from the...

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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive

Kondo, Ayako - 2016

prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …

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How do sex ratios affect marriage and labor markets? : evidence from America's second generation

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2001

second generation marriage market because second generation marriages were mostly endogamous, i.e., to members of the same …

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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men

Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

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Family Size and Birth Order in Chile : Using Twins as a Natural Experiment

Sanhueza, Claudia - 2010

This study estimates the causal effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment of individuals in the … long run. Following recent literature we use the presence of twins as an instrumental variable for family size and fixed … effects model for birth order. The results suggest that in Chile there is a negative relationship between family size and …

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