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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...

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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides

Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...

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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Flabbi, Luca; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

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Commitments and the marital match: the effect of alimony reform on assortative matching

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony … characteristics of newlyweds, we find that alimony reform increased measures of spousal covariance in education. Our results indicate …

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Assortative mating and divorce : evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce...

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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...

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Marital instability in the United States : trends, driving forces, and implications for children

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon Jeong - 2017

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U.S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at...

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro - 2007

-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony …

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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The economics of marriage

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer when the children will no longer be economically...

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