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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...

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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes

Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012

the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …

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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes

Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012

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How distance to a non-resident parent relates to child outcomes

Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 4, pp. 829-857

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Family Structure Changes and Children's Health, Behavior, and Educational Outcomes

Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012

More and more children do not grow up in traditional nuclear families. Instead, they grow up in single-parent households or in families with a step-parent. Hence, it is important to improve our understanding of the impact of "shocks" in family structure due to parental relationship dissolution...

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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children

Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017

This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of household behavior have failed to account for the...

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Child penalties, child outcomes, and family culture

Gould, Eric D.; Lichtinger, Guy - 2024

This paper analyzes how the "child penalty" associated with career interruptions for women after becoming a mother is influenced by preferences absorbed during childhood, and how the child penalty, in turn, is related to the quantity and quality (education) of her own children. Using linked...

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Brothers are Better : The Effect of Sibling Sex Composition on Women's Schooling, Health, Earnings, and Labor Supply

Bhai, Moiz - 2015

Using a twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect of sibling sex composition on schooling, earnings, health, and labor supply. Women born with a male co-twin have higher earnings, schooling, labor force...

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Long-term effects of school spending : evidence from exiting cohort size variation

Langørgen, Audun; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2023

This paper investigates the long-term effects of local government education spending on child outcomes, including income, educational attainment, and family formation in adulthood. We propose a novel identification strategy which exploits quasirandom variation in demographic trends when there is...

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Childcare choices and child development : generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster childrens's abilities

Del Boca, Daniela - 2015

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children can significantly increase cognitive outcomes in the short and long term and contribute to success later in life. One of the most important of these inputs is maternal time....

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