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The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …
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In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461827
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896186
In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963770
participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963930
This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
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This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068818
main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203
Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake were not only larger, but exhibit lower school completion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876767
investigate the impact of two start-up programs on long-run labor market and fertility outcomes of female participants. We find … situations. The impact on fertility is less detrimental than for traditional ALMP programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128846