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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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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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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany : Patterns and Developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …

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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition : Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France

Daudin, Guillaume - 2016

migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

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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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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in terms...

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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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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