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Three Essays on Spousal Matching, Intra-Household Allocation, and Family Welfare Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Child Health, Limiting Condition(s); Children, Illness; Data Linkage (also see Record Linkage); Divorce; Geocoded Data; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Parental Marital Status; State-Level Data/Policy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation consists of three essays which develop both theoretical and empirical models that explore the relationships between spousal matching, intra-household allocation, and family welfare. Chapter One develops a household allocation framework that analyzes how a child's health interacts with other important decisions, such as labor force participation, distribution of marital surplus, and divorce decisions. Chapter Two develops an empirical model that accounts for possible interaction effects in determining the decision to divorce; specifically, how the decision of both parents deciding to work full-time in the market, type of divorce legislation they are subject to, and the health of any children interact with each other and affect the decision to divorce. The main finding of this paper shows that there are not just direct effects but significant interaction effects. Chapter Three develops an empirical model that examines the role that birth order plays on the development of cognitive abilities in the presence of inputs provided by the mother and the father. |
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Snipes, Michael. Three Essays on Spousal Matching, Intra-Household Allocation, and Family Welfare. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008. |