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Parental Leave Policies, Intra-household Time Allocations and Children's Human Capital

Bernal, Raquel; Fruttero, Anna - 2008

This paper uses a general equilibrium model of marriage and divorce to assess how public policies on parental leave and leave benefits affect intra-household decision making, family structure, intergenerational mobility, and the distribution of income. The benchmark economy is calibrated to US...

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Parents' assets and child marriage : are mother's assets more protective than father's assets?

Muchomba, Felix M. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 138 (2021), pp. 1-15

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Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021

The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called...

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Mother or child? : intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - In: Journal of globalization and development 2 (2011) 1, pp. 1-25

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Worth fighting for : daughters improve their mothers' autonomy in South Asia

Heath, Rachel; Xu Tan - In: Journal of development economics 135 (2018), pp. 255-271

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Teen marriage and feeding behaviour to children in Indonesia

Indriyati; Handayani, Dwini - In: Malaysian journal of economic studies 55 (2018) 2, pp. 151-166

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Child health and parental paid work

Burton, Peter S.; Chen, Kelly; Lethbridge, Lynn; … - In: Review of Economics of the Household 15 (2017) 2, pp. 597-620

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Mother singlehood at first birth and mortality risks of first- and later-born children : the case of Senegal

Guilbert, Nathalie; Marazyan, Karine - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 84 (2018) 1, pp. 41-77

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Intrahousehold allocations by mothers to children : the role of observability

Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children … sharing, uncertainty is created which decreases cooperation by mothers by reducing their willingness to invest in children …’s food/nutrition and health/medical expenses. We use a survey conducted in Karnataka, South India, where women with children …

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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

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