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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being

Aizer, Anna; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock...

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Endogenous Co-residence and Program Incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension

Thomas, Duncan; Hamoudi, Amar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We investigate whether living arrangements respond to an arguably exogenous shift in the distribution of power in family economic decision-making. In the early 1990s, the South African Old Age Pension was expanded to cover most black South Africans above a sex-specific age cut-off resulting in a...

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Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting: Theory and an Application to UK Data

Fernandez, Raquel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter both because of their household income and because parental human capital determines the expected value of a child's disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show...

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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives

Arunachalam, Raj; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …

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Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

Iyengar, Radha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is...

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Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women

Currie, Janet; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

A key question for health care reform in the U.S. is whether expanded health insurance eligibility will lead to improvements in health outcomes. We address this question in the context of dramatic expansions in the Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women that took place during the 1980s. We...

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50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

Iyengar, Radha; Sabik, Lindsay; Southworth, Cindy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Intimate partner violence is a serious and preventable health problem affecting more than 30 million Americans each year. We use an innovative new research design to describe the frequency and correlates of emergency and crisis intervention services provided by domestic violence programs using...

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Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Watson, Tara; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the "marriage ideal" is determined by the median income in an individual's local reference group. After …

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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …

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