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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity...

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Are Boys and Girls Affected Differently When the Household Head Leaves for Good? Evidence from School and Work Choices in Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children’s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household-level fixed effects to deal with the fact that...

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Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates

Gould, Eric D; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage … decline for women over the last few decades, and we show that this is not due to the effects of male inequality on female … inequality, female labour supply, or decisions by women to re-locate, nor to the decisions of men in reaction to changes in their …

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'I Vont To Be Alone' Transitions to Independent Living, Marriage and Divorce Among Young Americans

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We investigate the importance of economic factors in young Americans’ decisions to form and dissolve households. We adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in...

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Sin City?

Gautier, Pieter A; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

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Family Matters

Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

, particularly for young women. Having spent some time in a single-parent family tends to reduce the educational attainments of young … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

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The Law of Primogeniture and the Transition from Landed Aristocracy to Industrial Democracy

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper looks at the historical evolution of the relationship between an economy’s structure and the corresponding political system, with a focus on the European experience, starting from feudal times. We show why, in an early agricultural phase, aristocratic political systems prevail,...

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse 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...

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation: direct evidence on the role of mothers

Carro, Jesus; Machado, Matilde Pinto; Mora, Ricardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Recently, economists have established that culture defined as a common set of preferences and beliefs—affects economic outcomes, including the levels of female labor force participation. Although this literature has argued that culture is transmitted from parents to children, it has also...

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