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Age at marriage and marital instability: revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael hypothesis
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2006
An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that … beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as … cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital …
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Is there a 'marriage premium' for gay men?
Zavodny, Madeline - 2007
It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage …
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What makes single mothers expand or reduce employment?
Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - 2012
To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 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 …
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Political Parties and Economic Outcomes. A Review
Beland, Louis-Philippe - In: CESifo DICE Report 14 (2016) 1, pp. 47-54
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 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...
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011
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/10010286883
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The effects of children's ADHD on parents' relationship dissolution and labor supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, … - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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