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Contoyannis, Paul Li, Jinhu |
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Family Socio-Economic Status, Childhood Life-Events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 11/13, The University of Melbourne, 2013. Also: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_series/wp2013n11.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Melbourne Institute, Faculty of Business and Economics Keyword(s): Childhood; Children, Mental Health; Depression (see also CESD); Heterogeneity; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper employs a conditional quantile regression approach to examine the roles of family SES, early childhood life-events, unobserved heterogeneity and pure state dependence in explaining the distribution of depression among adolescents and young adults using data on the children of the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 cohort (CNLSY79). Our study also extends previous work by explicitly modelling depression dynamics during adolescence. To estimate dynamic models we integrate the ‘jittering’ approach for estimating conditional quantile models for count data with a recently-developed instrumental variable approach for the estimation of dynamic quantile regression models with fixed effects. |
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Bibliography Citation
Contoyannis, Paul and Jinhu Li. "Family Socio-Economic Status, Childhood Life-Events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood." Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 11/13, The University of Melbourne, 2013. |
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Tabasso, Domenico |
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With or Without You: Hazard of Divorce and Intra-Household Allocation of Time Working Paper No. 7/11, Melbourne Institute Working Paper, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, March 31, 2011. Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802171 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Melbourne Institute, Faculty of Business and Economics Keyword(s): Child Care; Divorce; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Household Demand; Labor Force Participation; Leisure; Marriage; Time Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such activities, however, are characterized by gender role bias through, for example, social norms. In periods in which married women enjoy greater outside options (e.g., by increasing their labor force participation), it is expected that households in which the husband takes on typically female chores are less likely to dissolve, while couples in which the wife takes on typically male chores are more likely to divorce. The paper tests this hypothesis using data from the National Longitudinal Survey NLS) of Mature Women, the NLS Young Women, and the NLSY79. The prediction is strongly supported by the data with respect to older cohorts while it loses empirical relevance when tested on younger individuals. Furthermore, asymmetric effects between genders gain importance over time. Finally, an explanation for the relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption complementarities. To this end, data from the American Time Use Surveys from 1965 to 2005 are studied to illustrate how time spent together by partners in the same household has become increasingly crucial in the American family. |
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Bibliography Citation
Tabasso, Domenico. "With or Without You: Hazard of Divorce and Intra-Household Allocation of Time." Working Paper No. 7/11, Melbourne Institute Working Paper, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, March 31, 2011. |