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This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
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Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...
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Census and the number of visas granted by the State Department? …
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We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …
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Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...
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We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data across thirty two different developing countries. We start by examining associations between interpersonal violence and child mortality while controlling for...
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relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the … recession for low-grade students in particular. In contrast, we document very long-lasting effects on family formation outcomes … respond to early labor market prospects by changing the quality threshold for entering into family formation, a process which …
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. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …
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