A study of human behavior under the shadow of German regulations : empirical investigations of the 2008 alimony reform, child support obligations, and career-life reconciliation / Marianna Schaubert. Wuppertal, 2018
Inhalt
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
- 2.1 Abstract
- 2.2 Introduction
- 2.3 Background
- 2.4 Institutional environment
- 2.4.1 The 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
- 2.4.2 The 2013 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
- 2.4.3 Other institutional changes
- 2.4.4 Amount of alimony payments
- 2.5 Hypotheses
- 2.6 Data description
- 2.7 Identification strategy
- 2.8 Results
- 2.9 Additional robustness checks
- 2.9.1 Alternative control groups
- 2.9.2 Age restriction
- 2.9.3 Personal and marital assets
- 2.9.4 Seasonal fluctuations and macro conditions
- 2.10 Internal and external validity
- 2.11 Conclusions and discussion
- 3 Behavioral Response of Non-resident Parents to Child Support Obligations: Evidence From SOEP
- 3.1 Abstract
- 3.2 Introduction
- 3.3 Related literature
- 3.4 The German child support system
- 3.5 Hypotheses
- 3.6 Data
- 3.7 Identification strategy
- 3.8 Empirical results
- 3.9 Conclusions and discussion
- 4 Career, Private Life, and Well-Being among College-educated West German Women
- 4.1 Abstract
- 4.2 Introduction
- 4.3 Related literature
- 4.4 Work-family conflict theory
- 4.5 Data description
- 4.6 Descriptive results
- 4.7 Empirical approach
- 4.8 Results
- 4.9 Summary and conclusions
- Bibliography
- A Appendix Tables
- A.1 Chapter 2 Tables
- A.1.1 Descriptive results
- A.1.2 Results for wives' time allocation
- A.1.3 Results for husbands' labor supply
- A.1.4 Results for spouses' hours invested in childcare
- A.1.5 Alternative control group
- A.1.6 Age restrictions
- A.1.7 Ownership of assets
- A.1.8 The 2009 crisis
- A.1.9 Response rate
- A.2 Chapter 3 Tables
- A.2.1 Self-reported average amount of child support
- A.2.2 (Re)marriage
- A.2.3 New children
- A.2.4 Hours invested in childcare
- A.2.5 Labor supply
- A.2.6 Robustness checks for fertility
- A.3 Chapter 4 Tables
- B Appendix Figures
- C German maintenance laws
- D Additional remarks