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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

Halla, Martin - 2015

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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Why do Indian children work, and is it bad for them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000

framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural … favourable indirect repercussions on the nutritional status of children. Both types of policies discourage fertility. Income re …

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005

; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions : VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany

Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021

Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018

find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility …

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018 - This version: October 17, 2018

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor...

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Taxing family size and subsidising child-specific commodities? : optimal fiscal treatment of households with endogenous fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Pettini, Anna - 1999

-specific commodities, etc.) are examined within the context of a household economics model with fertility choice. The simultaneous … consideration of child benefits and commodity taxes in the presence of endogenous fertility yields some remarkable results. One is …

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Taxing Family Size and Subsiding Child-Specific Commodities : Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Households with Endogenous Fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Pettini, Anna - 2021

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