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Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
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In this article, the effect of child care provision on family structure is studied in a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single.Abstract:
This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due to specialization in home production, the incentive to use child care is smaller for married mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey data from Germany, we present suggestive empirical evidence consistent with this finding.read more
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Political regimes and the family: How sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany
TL;DR: For example, the authors investigated whether political regimes can shape attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the labor market, and found no evidence for a convergence process in gender attitudes.
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Kita-Ökonomik – eine Perspektive für Deutschland
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors find empirically empirically evidencierend empirical Arbeiten with einem ökonomischen Blick auf die Kindertagesbetreuung in Deutschland.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Betsey Stevenson,Justin Wolfers +1 more
TL;DR: The economic approach to the family seeks to explain these trends by reference to models that can also explain how and why families form as mentioned in this paper, which is not a static institution and the defining characteristics of marriage have changed.
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Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the dynamic response of divorce rates to a policy shock and find that liberalized divorce laws caused a discernible rise in divorce rates for about a decade, but that this increase was substantially reversed over the next decade.