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Raising the Financial Costs of Children and Fertility Responses: Evidence from the Kibbutz
Ebenstein, Avraham; Hazan, Moshe; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367434
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123619
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124463
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662232
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Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price
Gong, Xiaodong; Breuing, Robert; King, Anthony - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011
We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363238
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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers
Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032867
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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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The Availability of Child Care Centers, Perceived Search Costs and Parental Life Satisfaction
Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
The supply of formal childcare has expanded in many developed countries. There is ambiguity, however, in the theory that the entry of care providers increases consumers’ surplus and the welfare of households in a market with differentiated services, such as childcare. This study empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459931
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016242
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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321836