AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Betsey Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania)

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Session: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility (AEA)

Presiding: Karine S. Moe (Macalester College)

Explaining the Returns to Delayed Childbearing for Working Women
Kasey Buckles (University of Notre Dame)
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The Effect of Children's Gender on Living Arrangements and Child Support
Kristin Mammen (Barnard College)
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Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women's Labor Supply Revisited
Betsey Stevenson (University of Pennsylvania)
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Impaired Fecundity, Fertility, and Married Women's Labor Supply
Jungmin Lee (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and IZA, Germany)
Amy Farmer (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville)

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