Sons, Daughters, and the Risk of Marital Disruption

Morgan, S. Philip; Lye, Diane N.; Condran, Gretchen A.

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“…The relation between family type and sex is not signi®cant; there are not more girls in families after a divorce than in other family types. This does not con®rm the results of the study by Morgan et al [51] who found that parents of girls tend to divorce slightly more often than those of boys. After a divorce, adolescents usually remain with the mother: of one-parent families after a divorce 91% consists of families with only a mother and 9% of families with only a father.…”

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The well-being of youngsters coming from six different family types

Spruijt

DeGoede

VanderValk

2001

Patient Education and Counseling

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Families, or rather parents are in a state of¯ux: sometimes they row a lot, they divorce, they go and live together again and they die. This is why more and more children grow up in family forms other than the nuclear families with their biological fathers and mothers. What, in the long run, is the effect of this on the well-being of adolescents and young adults between 12±30? We have examined intact families that function well, mediocre or badly, one-parent families and stepfamilies after a divorce and one-parent families after being widowed. The data derive from the Dutch longitudinal panel study``Utrecht Study of Adolescent Development'' (USAD). The results of 1772 respondents between 12 and 30 years old are presented from the third wave by the end of 1997. Compared to youngsters of well functioning nuclear families, the youngsters of discordant nuclear families show a worse physical and mental health, their parental ®xation is not so strong, they tend to drink more alcohol, smoke more cigarettes and use more soft drugs. Children of divorced families are notable for their relational behaviour: they enter into relations at an early age, usually they are more sexually experienced and they report more relational problems. Children of widowed one-parent families do well. In other family types girls suffer a little more from the burden of life than boys. It appears that the effects are hardly different when the children leave home. #

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The well-being of youngsters coming from six different family types

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VanderValk

2001

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“…Another well-documented effect of a first-born girl vs. first-born boy is reduced marital stability, a fact first noted by Morgan, Lye, and Condran (1988). 20 Therefore, the gender of one's first child may affect labor supply late in the working life via marital history.…”

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Grandchildren and their grandparents' labor supply

Rupert

Zanella

2018

Journal of Public Economics

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We study how becoming a grandparent affects grandparents' labor supply. In a simple model of the allocation of time in which seniors care about their offspring's welfare and also value time spent with family children, the sign of the effect is ambiguous. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we find evidence that becoming a grandparent causes a reduction of employed grandmother's hours of work. We identify a lower bound of about 190. This effect originates towards the bottom of the hours distribution (i.e., among women less attached to the labor market). For employed grandfathers, the effect is also negative, originates towards the top of the hours distribution (i.e., where overtime work is substantial), but is smaller and more imprecisely estimated than for women. We also find that for working grandmothers the effect is stronger the closer grandparents and grandchildren live and during the first years since becoming a grandparent (i.e., when the grandchildren are younger). The "extensive margin" of grandparenting (becoming a grandparent) turns out to be much more important in generating these effects than the corresponding "intensive" margin (having additional grandchildren).JEL Classification Codes: D19, J13, J14, J22.

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“…The negative relationship between union dissolution and investments in a relationship via things such as time spent in union, children, and home ownership has been explained as resulting from the greater costs incurred by exiting a union with more of these investments [9] [11] [12] [14] [15] [16] [17]. Additionally, the sometimes found positive relationship between a couple having a boy and union stability has been viewed as reflecting the greater costs for fathers to leave unions in which they have put more time and energy into due to their greater involvement with a male child vis-à-vis a female child [18] [19] [20]. At the same time, the sometimes positive relationship which has been found between a wife's income and union stability has been deemed as resulting from the reduced benefit of exiting a relationship in which a wife's income, if pooled, has benefited the entire family and relieved the economic pressure on the husband [8] [21].…”

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An Exploration of the Predictors of Relationship Status with a Caveat on Interpretation

Mastroniani¹

2017

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Using the Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study dataset (PRMIHS), the predictors of relationship status were examined via probit regression. The strongest predictors of relationship status found were interactions between binary variables for the age. A respondent first had sexual intercourse and for the age when a respondent first entered into a union (N = 1452). This paper concludes by arguing that the results provide support for viewing union status as being primarily dependent on the people involved in the union, as opposed to being primarily dependent on factors external to the people themselves.

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Sons, Daughters, and the Risk of Marital Disruption

Cited by 268 publications

References 13 publications

The well-being of youngsters coming from six different family types

The well-being of youngsters coming from six different family types

Grandchildren and their grandparents' labor supply

An Exploration of the Predictors of Relationship Status with a Caveat on Interpretation

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