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Title: THREE ESSAYS ON HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY, BARGAINING AND CHILD CUSTODY
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Household inequalities have been shown to play a crucial role in theories of intra-household resource allocation, income distribution as well as intergenerational mobility for decades. Chapter 1 of this dissertation considers parental inequalities as determinants of child outcomes and of child household inequalities. It investigates the intergenerational link in equalities on labor income, wage, and education, and highlights how gender role attitude and preference transmission can be relevant in the analysis of household problems. Using PSID data, it shows that married sons mimic their parents in family disparity more than married daughters. A large literature investigates various factors which influence the relationship between parental income and children’s outcomes, however little focuses on the heterogeneity in parents’ preferences. The heterogeneity is a reason why children’s outcomes are a function of parental bargaining power. Chapter 2 proposes a new theoretical model combining two economic issues: intergenerational mobility and intra-household resource allocation. In the empirical section, it uses the differences between parental, grand-parental educations and abortion legality as proxies for bargaining power to examine the impact of the power on children’s outcome and on the intergenerational linkages in labor earnings and education. The chapter points-out that female empowerment negatively affects son’s education and correlation between the parents’ income and their son’s outcomes. Chapter 3 investigates impact of the state custody reforms in the United States on family labor supply and some marital variables (incidence of divorce and marriage, fertility rates, age at PREVIEW iv marriage, child investment, and marital specific capitals) while considering these variables as avenues on the link between the reforms and married couples’ working behaviors. It proposes a very simple framework to connect the legalizations, the marital variables, and spousal labor supply. It verifies the connections empirically and indicates that the reforms lead to an increase in incidence of divorce and marriage, and overall and marital fertility, and a decrease in out-ofwedlock birth rate, timing of marriage of both sexes, and investment in children’s private schooling and in several marital specific capitals. Women’s labor force participation positively responds to the legalization while their husbands’ are negatively affected.
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Authors: Nguyen, Dung Kieu
Institution: University of New York, Albany
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Publisher Location: Albany, NY
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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Family and Marriage
Countries: United States