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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho; Aassve, Arnstein - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Bayesian Inference for Duration Data with Unobserved and Unknown Heterogeneity: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application

Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper describes a semiparametric Bayesian method for analyzing duration data. The proposed estimator specifies a complete functional form for duration spells, but allows flexibility by introducing an individual heterogeneity term, which follows a Dirichlet mixture distribution. I show how...

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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain: Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Chib, Siddhartha; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...

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Das Wachstum der Zukunft ist weiblich

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Um den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt demografiefest zu machen, bedarf es einer stärkeren Aktivierung des Potenzials weiblicher Erwerbspersonen bei gleichzeitiger Steigerung der Geburtenrate. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Handlungsoptionen zur Lösung dieser beiden zentralen Zukunftsaufgaben auf und...

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Grenzen einer Bevölkerungspolitik durch Familienpolitik

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Die Frage nach den Erfolgsaussichten einer auf steuerlichen Entlastungswirkungen basierenden Familienpolitik als Bevölkerungspolitik ist keineswegs neu. So keimte bereits aus Anlass von Plänen zu einer Steuerreform, bei der zum 1. Januar 1986 im Rahmen des Familienlastenausgleichs die...

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"Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...

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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

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Parental Response to Early Human Capital Shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...

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Does Custody Law Affect Family Behavior In and Out of Marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

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