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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform … bargaining power. Estimating difference-in-differences models I find that, indeed, wives who face a potential low alimony loss … those who have been (dis)advantaged by this reform is a new one, proposing a method that reflects the realities of alimony …

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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019

We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...

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Early labor market prospects and family formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018

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Does it pay for women to volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. Estimates of a DCDP model indicate that an extra year of volunteer experience increases wage offers by 8.5% in future part-time work and by 2.6% in future full-time work. On average, working for free...

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How Important Are Mental and Physical Health in Career and Family Choices?

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024

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Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys : gender preferences in Poland and their implications

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2011

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers' labor market outcomes, we take advantage...

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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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