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bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …
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terms of their income. However, interactions between the individual, the childhood family and neighbourhood context and the …. It is likely that part of the effects attributed to neighbourhoods, are actually effects of the family in which someone … was brought up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, and synthetic …
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children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …
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converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …
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This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE). We show that maternal grandparents look after grandchildren and provide financial or...
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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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within the family home. However, we find mixed impacts on the gaps in non-cognitive development. …
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In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
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' working hours is amplified through the influence of family peers. Using Norwegian administrative data we study the long …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit … partially overlapping peer groups and assume that a mother interacts with her neighbours and family but not with her family …
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