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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign Extends Life Expectancy: A Study of Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483323
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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2019
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985888
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‘More Children, More Happiness?’: New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019
causal evidence of the impact of fertility on elderly parents’ SWB from a developing economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027851
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Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219743
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9, which provides a unique opportunity to explore the determinants of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967985
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124457