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Parental benefits improve parental well-being: evidence from a 2007 policy change in Germany

Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Family policies aim to influence fertility and labor force participation, and support families. However, often only fertility and labor supply are considered in policy evaluations. For example, the 2007 extension of parental leave benefits in Germany is generally considered unsuccessful because...

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Economic stress or random variation? Revisiting german reunification as a natural experiment to investigate the effect of economic contraction on sex ratios at birth

Schnettler, Sebastian; Klüsener, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

The economic stress hypothesis (ESH) suggests that economic decline leads to a decrease in the proportion of males born in a population. A multitude of additional influences on sex ratios that often cannot be accounted for empirically make assessing the validity of the ESH difficult. Thus, as a...

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Normative and allocation role strain: role incompatibility, outsourcing, and the transition to a second birth in Eastern and Western Germany

Raz-Yurovich, Liat - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

The challenges women face in reconciling their work and family responsibilities are at the heart of current explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing...

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Geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsmarktsegregation und Geburtenverhalten: neue Befunde auf Basis der „Biografiedaten ausgewählter Sozialversicherungsträger in Deutschland“ (BASiD)...

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Vatterrott, Anja - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women have been employed. It is examined how occupational sex...

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Reproductive behavior of landless agricultural workers, small farmers, and the economic elite in the historical Krummhörn region [East Frisia, Germany, 1720-1870]

Willführ, Kai P.; Störmer, Charlotte - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

The historical population of the Krummhörn region [1720-1850] in the northwest of Germany can be characterized as a non-industrialized, pre-capitalist agricultural society. Around 70 percent of the families had either no land or owned farms too small to ensure subsistence, and therefore worked...

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Care for money? Mortality improvements, increasing intergenerational transfers, and time devoted to the elderly

Vogt, Tobias C.; Kluge, Fanny A. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western German levels. Simultaneously, the pension benefits of eastern Germans rose tenfold. Objective: We make use of German reunification as a natural experiment to show that, first,...

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Regional mortality disparities in Germany: long-term dynamics and possible determinants

Kibele, Eva U. B.; Klüsener, Sebastian; Scholz, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern...

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The East-West gradient in spatial population development within Germany: temporary GDR legacy vs. longstanding spatial disparities

Klüsener, Sebastian; Zagheni, Emilio - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the former communist eastern part of the country has experienced substantial levels of population decline and outmigration. These trends are largely attributable to East-West differences in economic development (May 2007). In this article, we explore the...

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Diversität von Familienformen in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Bastin, Sonja; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schnor, Christine - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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Happiness: before and after the kids

Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions …. We study trajectories of parental happiness before and after the birth of a child using British and German panel data and … methods which control for unobserved parental characteristics. We find that happiness increases prior to and in the year of …

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