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September 20, 2023

The long shadow of China’s one-child policy

New research on fertility among Chinese immigrants to the US suggests small-family cultural norms are hard to overcome

  • China
  • culture
  • family
  • fertility
  • immigrants
  • one-child policy
  • Laura M. Argys
  • Siyuan Lin
  • Susan L. Averett
Research

September 24, 2020

What explains the unexplained gender pay gap?

Family choices affect pay differences between men and women

  • career
  • choice
  • discrimination
  • family
  • gender pay gap
  • Christian Bredemeier
  • Dorothée Averkamp
  • Falko Juessen
Research

December 17, 2019

How the rise of industrial robots affects family behavior

Men's 'economic value' on the marriage market has fallen with growing labor market uncertainty

  • automation
  • divorce
  • early childhood
  • family
  • marriage
  • robots
  • Luca Stella
  • Massimo Anelli
  • Osea Giuntella
Research

June 25, 2019

Expansion of paid parental leave may work against intended goals

Study from France analyzes the effects on household specialization and children's well-being

  • family
  • gender gap
  • household
  • maternity
  • parental leave
  • paternity
  • well-being
  • Serena Canaan
Research

May 30, 2018

Informal care givers pay a high price in well-being

New study monetarizes the well-being losses from providing informal care to family members.

  • caregiving
  • disability
  • elderly
  • family
  • informal care
  • shadow price
  • UK
  • valuation
  • well-being
  • Nattavudh Powdthavee
  • Rebecca McDonald
Research

April 12, 2018

Is dependency on disability insurance benefits transmitted from parents to children?

Disability benefits provide an essential safety net for many people of working age whose health prevents them from engaging in […]

  • benefit recipiency
  • children
  • disability insurance
  • family
  • insurance
  • intergenerational
  • labor market policy
  • Netherlands
  • parents
  • social assistance
  • social policy
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Gordon B. Dahl
Research

October 24, 2017

Teenage daughters as a risk factor for divorce

Sullen exchanges, inexplicable silences and broken curfews can be part of life for parents of teenagers, but could this period […]

  • boys
  • children
  • divorce
  • family
  • gender roles
  • girls
  • marriage
  • Netherlands
  • parents
  • Amar Hamoudi
  • David C. Ribar
  • Elizabeth O. Ananat
  • Enrico Moretti
  • Francine D. Blau
  • Gordon B. Dahl
  • Guy Michaels
  • H. Corman
  • Jan Kabátek
  • Jason Cook
  • Jenna Nobles
  • K. Noonan
  • Lawrence M. Kahn
  • Miriam Larson-Koester
  • NE Reichman
  • Peter Brummund
  • Shelly Lundberg
Research

May 9, 2017

How personality is affected by birth order and birth spacing

The family environment is among the most important factors in the development of a child’s personality. It is evident that […]

  • birth order
  • birth spacing
  • career
  • child development
  • competition
  • education
  • family
  • parents
  • personality
  • siblings
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • Björn Öckert
  • Cécile A. J. Magnée
  • Erik Grönqvist
  • Jason M. Fletcher
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Stefanie Schurer
Research

November 11, 2016

What a difference a day makes

Family stability is a prerequisite for a number of social outcomes that policy makers care about, not the least being […]

  • date
  • divorce
  • family
  • marriage
  • Netherlands
  • partnership
  • wedding
  • David C. Ribar
  • Jan Kabátek
Research

September 15, 2016

How the world’s largest social pension reform is transforming family old-age care

By Xi Chen (Yale University and IZA) Social pensions are designed to provide the elderly population, especially those with low […]

  • China
  • elderly
  • family
  • income
  • life expectancy
  • NRPS
  • old age
  • retirement
  • social pensions
  • social security
  • Ang Sun
  • Karen Eggleston
  • Tianyu Wang
  • Xi Chen
Research

July 7, 2015

Early-life medical interventions benefit siblings of treated children

When newborns with a too low birth weight are treated, even their non-affected siblings benefit. This is the conclusion of […]

  • academic achievement
  • birth weight
  • children
  • Denmark
  • family
  • health
  • intellectual disability
  • medical interventions
  • medical treatments
  • parental health education
  • siblings
  • Marianne Simonsen
  • Mircea Trandafir
  • N. Meltem Daysal
  • Sanni Breining
Research

March 4, 2015

The last will: Unequal division between children is more common than you think

There are many reasons why parents may consider distributing their inheritance unevenly among their children. One of them might have […]

  • bequest
  • children
  • death
  • distribution
  • estate
  • family
  • inequality
  • inheritance
  • parents
  • patrimony
  • Domenico Tabasso
  • Marco Francesconi
  • Robert Pollak
Research

February 17, 2015

When parents divorce, children’s personality development suffers

Disruptions in family structure are suspected to impede the development of children’s personality, with far-reaching consequences for school performance and […]

  • children
  • death
  • Development
  • divorce
  • family
  • parents
  • personality
  • Bas ter Weel
  • Helena Skyt Nielsen
  • Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen
  • Marianne Simonsen
  • Morten Visby Kraegpøth
  • Tyas Prevoo
Research

September 17, 2014

Flexible working hours improve job satisfaction

Temporal and locational flexibility (TLF) is an important element in current policy debates about working conditions and the combination of […]

  • family
  • flexibility
  • job satisfaction
  • Netherlands
  • part-time work
  • working conditions
  • working hours
  • Daniel Possenriede
  • Janneke Plantenga
Research

August 22, 2014

Migration decisions of couples: Who wears the pants?

Couples are less likely than singles, but more likely than families to emigrate to a different country. But who makes […]

  • couple
  • decision making
  • Denmark
  • education
  • family
  • gender differences
  • income
  • job matching
  • migration
  • Martin D. Munk
  • Martin Junge
  • Panu Poutvaara
Research

September 30, 2013

Have the benefits from marriage changed over the past decades? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Shelly Lundberg and Robert […]

  • children
  • divorce
  • education
  • family
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • fertility
  • marriage
  • mating
  • Robert Pollak
  • Shelly Lundberg

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