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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1357–1379.
Published: 01 July 2014
... ) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention ( average marriage ). We exploit the suspension of a cash-on-hand marriage subsidy in Austria to examine the differential behavior of marginal and average marriages. The announcement of an impending suspension of this subsidy...
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Annual number of marriages and divorces per 1,000 of population, Austria 19...
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schillings within the first five years after the establishment of a new household by newlyweds was abolished. However, per January 1, 1972, a marriage subsidy for every person with unrestricted tax liability in Austria who had never been married of 7,500 Austrian schillings was introduced. Thus, two Austrian
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periods: pretreatment period (1981 through September 1987, no compositional effect, transfer effect from the existence of marriage subsidy), treatment period (β 3 ; October through December 1987, compositional effect from marginal marriages and transfer effect), and post-treatment period (β 4 ; 1988
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2345–2370.
Published: 27 November 2018
...Junhong Chu; Haoming Liu; I. P. L. Png Abstract We exploit China’s heating policy to investigate how nonlabor income affects marriage. From the mid-1950s, the policy gave substantial subsidies to urban residents north of the Huai River. Applying geographic regression discontinuity, we find...
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Subsidized Housing and the Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 617–642.
Published: 14 March 2018
... of treatment weighting Early adulthood is a demographically dense period characterized by short-spaced transitions to higher education, marriage, parenthood, employment, and independent living. It is a period when young adults make decisions that set in place long-term trajectories that are not only...
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Trends in the Economic Consequences of Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution in the United States
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 401–432.
Published: 07 March 2015
... change in nationally representative dissolution cohorts over time, rather than focusing on a single cohort (for which age and period effects are confounded). 2 5 2 2015 7 3 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Marriage Cohabitation Divorce Economic coping...
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Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex Selection in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... (Ebenstein and Leung 2010 ). The proposed subsidy will limit sex selection, discourage fertility, and mitigate the pain of an old age without sons, while improving the prospects of future men for the marriage market. The anticipated cost of such a program could also be lowered by taxing sons. Although I...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 247–266.
Published: 01 February 2022
... policies influence marital behavior. For example, using natural experiments with longitudinal data, Frimmel et al. (2014) found that supportive marriage policies, in particular cash-on-hand marriage subsidies, led to a substantial marriage boom in Austria, and a marriage created by the policies...
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View articletitled, Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 165–179.
Published: 01 February 2002
... incomes and those who are former welfare recipients, these costs may be an insurmountable barrier to employment or economic self-sufficiency. Despite increased public spending in this area, the receipt of any child care subsidy appears to be a relatively rare and uncertain event. In this study, we use...
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The impact of family policy expenditure on fertility in western Europe
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 503–519.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Adriaan Kalwij Abstract This article analyzes the impact on fertility of changes in national expenditure for family allowances, maternity- and parental-leave benefits, and childcare subsidies. To do so, I estimate a model for the timing of births using individual-level data from 16 western European...
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A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 139–164.
Published: 01 February 2002
.../003465397556467 Barrow , L. ( 1999 ). An Analysis of Women’s Return-to-Work Decisions Following First Birth . Economic Inquiry , 37 , 432 – 51 . 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1999.tb01441.x Berger , M.C. , & Black , D.A. ( 1992 ). Child Care Subsidies, Quality of Care, and the Labor...
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Economic Incentives and Foster Child Adoption
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 933–954.
Published: 06 November 2012
... have begun to offer adoption subsidies to offset some of these expenses, significantly lowering the cost of adopting a child who is in the foster care system. This article presents empirical evidence of the role that these economic incentives play in foster parents’ decision of when, or if, to adopt...
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Economic incentives for financial and residential independence
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 82–97.
Published: 01 February 1996
... History Analysis . Beverly Hills : Sage . Aquilino W.S. ( 1990 ). The Likelihood of Parent-Child Coresidence: Effects of Family Structure and Parental Characteristics . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 52 , 405 – 19 . 10.2307/353035 Aquilino W.S. ( 1991 ). Family...
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How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 February 1994
.... H. ( 1990 ). Regional Fertility Differentials in Indonesia: Causes and Trends . Canberra, Australia : Australian National University . Hull T. ( 1987 ). Changing Marriage Behavior in Java: The Role of Timing of Consummation . Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science , 15 ( 1...
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Child care arrangements and fertility: An analysis of two-earner households
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 499–513.
Published: 01 November 1985
... is higher among families in which the husband’s income, the wife’s wage, and the level of the wife’s labor supply are high; these households are likely to benefit the most from subsidies to the market forms of care that are small relative to the total cost of care (e.g. the present system of tax credits...
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The Changing Safety Net for Low-Income Parents and Their Children: Structural or Cyclical Changes in Income Support Policy?
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 189–221.
Published: 29 January 2018
... (0.001) (0.004) (0.002) (0.003) State minimum wage –0.0029 –0.0048 –0.0086* 0.0016 (0.002) (0.008) (0.005) (0.008) EITC subsidy rate –0.4042** –0.1791 –0.3508** –0.5125** (0.062) (0.202) (0.098) (0.180) State has refundable EITC –0.0044 –0.0253 –0.0113 –0.0169...
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Welfare reform and female headship
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 May 2004
...John M. Fitzgerald; David C. Ribar Abstract While much of the focus of recent welfare reforms has been on moving recipients from welfare to work, many reforms were also directed at decisions regarding living arrangements, pregnancy, marriage, and cohabitation. This article assesses the impact...
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Child care availability and first-birth timing in Norway
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 345–372.
Published: 01 May 2007
... are nonpro t and are typically started in response to a lack of suf cient openings in public day care centers. At the end of the study period, both public and private centers received state subsidies of about $500 per month per child served, which amounts to a little more than half the cost of providing...
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The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for Married and Unmarried Parents in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1789–1818.
Published: 10 May 2013
... disadvantaged personal and relationship characteristics, or because they lack the normative and institutional supports of marriage, thus rendering their relationships more sensitive to disadvantage. In this article, we evaluate these two sources of union instability among married, cohabiting, and dating parents...
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Welfare Reform and Labor Force Exit by Young, Low-Skilled Single Males
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 393–418.
Published: 24 February 2016
..., the implementation of TANF, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions led young, low-skilled single males to exit the labor force. To the best of my knowledge, this study is the first to show that the subsidies and work inducements embedded in reform policies targeting low-skilled single mothers...
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