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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 … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare

Anderson, Siwan - 2014

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

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Kinship, incentives, and evolution

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1725-1758

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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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Do changes in divorce legislation have an impact on divorce rates? : the case of unilateral divorce in Mexico

Aguirre, Edith - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-24

legislation has proved to be an effective tool in modifying family structures in Mexico, so it is important to be aware of the …

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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

prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …

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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 …

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Kammen, Ben Van; Adams, Scott J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

division of labor within a household can render a marriage more durable. On the other hand, spouses that are dissimilar in … toward certain activities to the marriage that reflects compatible preferences for joint consumption of household public …

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US time use survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-37

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for … immigrant men. Traditionally, gender-based privileges may allow immigrant men to prevent native women from getting a price for …

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Sharing housework between husbands and wives : how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan

Kobayashi, Mayu; Kobayashi, Miki; Okumura, Tsunao; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-15

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse performs. For single-earner couples, both husbands and wives are more satisfied with the other spouse if the wife performs the greater share of the housework on weekdays. In...

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