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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...

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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures of empowerment. We apply an instrumental variables...

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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation

Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...

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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...

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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline

Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in … distribution of completed childbearing around a two-child mode and a decrease in childlessness; (2) the decoupling of marriage and …

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Family Planning: Program Effects

Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and...

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Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War

Angrist, Joshua; John H. Johnson, IV - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from home for an extended period of time, so Gulf War...

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms

Angrist, Joshua; evans, william n. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage …

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The Influence of Nonmarital Childbearing on the Formation of First Marriages

Bloom, David; Bennett, Neil G.; Miller, Cynthia K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …

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