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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … pre-war generation, if the first child was a daughter, the total number of children tended to increase not only when the … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277862
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … pre-war generation, if the first child was a daughter, the total number of children tended to increase regardless of the … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621799
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … pre-war generation, if the first child was a daughter, the total number of children tended to increase not only when the … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805049
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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.
Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654199
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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312
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Human Capital Accumulation through Interaction between a Married Couple: Comparison between a Housewife and a Working Wife
Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839482
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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557275
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Smokers’ Preference for Divorce and Extramarital Sex
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
-level data from Japan are used to examine how preferences for divorce and extramarital sex are different between smokers and … likely to have a positive view about divorce than nonsmokers; (2) smokers are more likely to have a positive view about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259040
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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we explore the relationship between the influence of wives’ human capital on their husbands’ earnings and their labor participation using individual level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We found that a wife’s human capital has a positive effect on her husband’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560974
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Trust and Fertility: Evidence from OECD countries
Yamamura, Eiji; Antonio R, Andrés - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1 …% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919748