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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2010

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2021

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

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Children of a (Policy) Revolution : The Introduction of Universal Child Care and Its Effect on Fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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From Politics to the Family : How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to address this question. During the divided...

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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

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