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Title: Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States
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Brown, Meta Flinn, Christopher Jay |
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Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin and Department of Economics, New York University, January 2004. Also: http://www.nyu.edu/econ/user/flinnc/papers/BrownFlinn0104.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Divorce; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Fathers, Involvement; Income; Marital Stability; Marriage; Parental Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Abstract Policies governing divorce and parenting, such as child support enforcement, child custody regulations,and marital dissolution requirements, optimize some combination of parents' and children's welfare. Recent research has produced evidence on the responses of divorce rates to unilateral divorce laws and child support enforcement. We argue that in order to assess the child welfare impact of family policies, one must consider their influence on parents' investments in their children as well as the stability of the marginal marriage. Further, we expect that changes in the regulatory environment induce changes in the distribution of resources within both intact and divided families. This paper presents a continuous time model of parents' marital status choices and investments in children, with the goal of determining how policies toward divorce influence outcomes for children. Preliminary estimates are derived for model parameters of interest, and simulations based on the model explore the effects of changes in standard custody allocations on outcomes for children of married and divorced parents. |
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Brown, Meta and Christopher Jay Flinn. "Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin and Department of Economics, New York University, January 2004. |