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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Danzer, Natalia - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole E.; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelissen, Thomas - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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The Female Vote and the Rise of AKP in Turkey

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2021

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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'Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School' : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination

Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015

In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...

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