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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2007

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

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Visitations and transfers in non intact households

Del Boca, Daniela; Ribero, Rocío - 1999

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Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Brandt, Loren - 2009

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...

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Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Brandt, Loren - 2013

This paper investigates how rural families in China use marital and post-marital transfers to compensate their sons for unequal schooling expenditures. Using a common behavioral framework, we derive two alternative methods for estimating the relationship between parental transfers and schooling...

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Educational assortative mating and harsh parenting in sub-Saharan Africa

Pesando, Luca Maria; De Cao, Elisabetta; La Mattina, Giulia - 2023

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

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Paternal uncertainty and the economics of mating, marriage, and parental investment in children

Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2005

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage

Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633544

Visitations and transfers in non intact households

Del Boca, Daniela; Ribero, Rocío - 1999

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...

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