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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128345
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865164
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329207
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The effect of child care on family structure: Theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281794
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Social Norms and Fertility
Myong, Sunha - 2018
We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … sufficiently boost fertility for highly educated women. On the other hand, the social stigma has negligible effects on marriage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912228
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With or Without You : Divorce Rates and Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132570
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108093
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075792
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With or Without You : Hazard of Divorce and Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127708
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With or without you : divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156104