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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008

Kaldager, Rannveig V. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014

I analyze whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994 … that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … cost of fathering increases, there is no evidence of a weaker correlation between earnings and first birth probability for …

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The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence form IV estimation

Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of...

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Can a cash transfer to families change fertility behaviour?

Andersen, Synøve N.; Drange, Nina; Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

This paper assesses the relationship between cash transfers to families and subsequent childbearing. We take advantage of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and ineligible mothers over a four year period. Contrary to...

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children – Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...

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Fertility and the Opportunities of Children: Evidence on Quantity-Quality Interactions in Sweden

Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

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Mother’s employment and fertility in Norway

Gerster, Mette; Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010

This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the employment processes we employ a simultaneous equations approach for hazard models,...

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