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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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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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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive
Kondo, Ayako - 2016
Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …
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Population and economic growth : a review essay
Škare, Marinko; Blažević, Sanja - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 40, pp. 1036-1053
For centuries, scientists from various scientific fields have been leading lively discussions on the (bidirectional) relationship between population growth and economic growth. Particular attention was given to the nature of the population growth variable, i.e. whether it is an endogenous or...
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …
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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh
Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9
This research studies the extent of asymmetric responses of general fertility rate with financial development and … distributed lag methodologies. Our study identifies a long run stable equilibrium among fertility rate, financial development and … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control …
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Cultural norms, the persistence of tax evasion, and economic growth
Varvarigos, Dimitrios - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 63 (2017) 4, pp. 961-995
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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