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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris Van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - CESifo - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020094
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 2009
we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …
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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - CESifo - 2013
The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877915
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Domestic Abuse: Instrumental Violence and Economics Incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2011
A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans; Ujhelyiova, Daniela - CESifo - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020087
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Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium: Theory and Empirical Test
Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis; Wildman, John - CESifo - 2015
frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by … male wage differentials. The equilibrium may also display the “marriage premium”, predicted to be lower among attractive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200049
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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - CESifo - 2014
Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765494
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 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/10010877918