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478 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15331
Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Elliott Isaac, Haibin Jiang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15312
The Labour Supply of Mothers
Hélène Turon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15304
Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days
María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo, Mariana Viollaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15288
Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey
Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte, Karine Marazyan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15272
Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest Is Empty
Hippolyte D'Albis, Karina Doorley, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15267
Stable Income, Stable Family
Jason M. Lindo, Krishna Regmi, Isaac D. Swensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15177
Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
Daiji Kawaguchi, Takahiro Toriyabe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15138
Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15137
No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Thomas Dudek, Anne Ardila Brenøe, Jan Feld, Julia Rohrer
forthcoming in: Psychological Science
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15129
Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Serena Canaan, Anne Sophie Lassen, Philip Rosenbaum, Herdis Steingrimsdottir
forthcoming in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15113
Can Public Policy Increase Paternity Acknowledgment? Evidence from Earnings-Related Parental Leave
Anna Raute, Andrea Weber, Galina Zudenkova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15098
Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Silvia Prina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15022
Earmarked Paternity Leave and Well-Being
Pontus Korsgren, Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15012
Fathering Daughters and Personality
Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14993
Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences
Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14958
Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet, Francisco J. Pino
R&R: Review of Economics and Statistics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14949
The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14936
Specialized Courts and the Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Spain
Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, Marta Martínez Matute
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14918
Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
Forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14897
Gender Discrimination
Kailing Shen
published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14877
Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14861
Increasing Women's Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare
Kate Ambler, Kelly M. Jones, Michael O’Sullivan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14854
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Eric A. Hanushek, Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf Van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14774
Does Being "Left–Behind" in Childhood Lead To Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Lisa A. Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14752
Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?
Alexandra de Gendre, Stefanie Schurer, Angela Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14735
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Pelin Akyol, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14719
The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States
Elona Harka, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14520
More or Less Unmarried. The Impact of Legal Settings of Cohabitation on Labour Market Outcomes
Marion Goussé, Marion Leturcq
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14506
Male Fertility: Facts, Distribution and Drivers of Inequality
Bernt Bratsberg, Andreas Kotsadam, Selma Walther
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14480
Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
forthcoming in: Feminist Economics, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14442
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match
Dan Anderberg, Noemi Mantovan, Robert M. Sauer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14415
One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China
Jun Han, Zhong Zhao
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26(1), 57-84[Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14406
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
forthcoming in: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14385
Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14379
With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting.
Giorgio Brunello, Eiji Yamamura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14352
Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
Patrick A. Puhani, Margret K. Sterrenberg
revised version published online as 'Effects of Mandatory Military and Alternative Community Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic outcomes' in: Kyklos, 21 March 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14271
The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
forthcoming in; Research in Economics, 2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14264
College as a Marriage Market
Lars Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259
The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14250
Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India
Sofia Amaral, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Nishith Prakash
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239
Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14226
Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14225
Gender Norms and Domestic Abuse: Evidence From Australia
Yinjunjie Zhang, Robert Breunig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14185
Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
James J. Heckman, Rasmus Landerso
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14144
Gender Norm Conflict and Marital Outcomes
Francisca M. Antman, Priti Kalsi, Soohyung Lee
forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14122
Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14066
Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14001
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Replication and Reappraisal of "For Better or For Worse? Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey"
Pelin Akyol, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997
Moms' Time—Married or Not
Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13957
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
Teresa Molina, Mari Tanaka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13894
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Uwe Jirjahn, Martha Ottenbacher
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura
forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13881
Mining and Gender Gaps in India
Amanda Guimbeau, James Ji, Nidhiya Menon, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13841
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Amalia Miller, Carmit Segal, Melissa K. Spencer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13839
Female Employment and Childcare
Lena Hassani Nezhad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811
Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13810
Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence
Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger, Jennifer Louise Roff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13781
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Anna Aizer, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13659
The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest
Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Guglielmo Weber
forthcoming in: Demography, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13630
Educational Gender Gaps
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13621
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi
Manuela Angelucci, Daniel Bennett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13601
Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective
Dorothée Averkamp, Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13594
Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage
Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13570
Can't Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty
Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Natalia Nollenberger
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13495
Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018
Christopher Jepsen, Lisa Jepsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13487
Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?
David Slusky, Donna K. Ginther
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13473
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Cécile A. J. Magnée
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13398
Family Life in Lockdown
Pietro Biroli, Steven J. Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska, Jeremy Vollen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13377
Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data
Cahit Guven, Lan Anh Tong, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (1), 50-77.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340
Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13332
COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad, Derek Mikola
published as 'Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak' in: Canadian Public Policy, 2021, 47 (3), 439-459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13329
In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
Christina Gathmann, Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Lauri Sääksvuori, Robin Stitzing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13312
Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy
Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13111
Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru
Italo A. Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061
Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999
The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12952
Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(4): 1499-1522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12947
Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey
Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12944
Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage
Ziteng Lei, Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876
Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Chunbei Wang
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12847
Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence
Semih Tumen, Hakan Ulucan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12820
Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12774
Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood
Gerald J. Pruckner, Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober, Martina Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760
The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12746
Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Brecht Neyt, Stijn Baert, Jana Vynckier
revised version available on request
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12721
Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Journal of Economic Geography, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12710
Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Thomas Epper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12695
Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
Nick Drydakis
published in: K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, New York: Springer, First Online: 04 March 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12665
Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?
Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John T. Giles, Harold Alderman
published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12599
Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data
Wang-Sheng Lee, Terra McKinnish
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, Article 102205.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12563
Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment
Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published as 'The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach' in: Labour Economics, 2021, Volume 71, 102023. Open access: [Link to the published version]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516
Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12461
Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Jesse Matheson, Réka Plugor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12420
Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being
Serena Canaan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12386
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12381
Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Mutlu Yuksel, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Cahit Guven
published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (310), 279-300
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12373
Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 935-958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356
The Marriage Age U-Shape
Pavel Jelnov
forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021
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