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Does marriage matter for children? : Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage
Björklund, Anders (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597584
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Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316677
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Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage
bjorklund, anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden’s rich administrative data sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763488
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Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Impact of Legal Marriage in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2010
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage and the effect of selection bias on marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552417
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Does marriage matter for children? : assessing the impact of legal marriage in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952609
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children reveal intergenerational elasticities between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380703
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First union formation among the children of immigrants in Norway : timing and choice of union type
Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug - 2019
Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either native-born or who immigrated as children or teens (N=1,013,734), the current study investigated timing of first co-residential union and choice of union type in the period 2005 through 2018. Descriptive results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105118
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Origin and residential influences on the first partnership choices of the children of immigrants in Norway
Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug; Holland, Jennifer A. - 2021
immigrated as children or teens, in combination with data from the World Marriage Database, we investigate how residential … partner markets and marriage behavior in countries of origin shape partner choice and choice of union type in Norway. Results … singulate mean age of marriage (SMAM) in countries of origin was positively related to cohabitation, whereas those originating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800693
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Common law marriage and couple formation
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408837
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004
It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262010