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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 (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on …

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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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Modes of Child Care

Glomm, Gerhard - 2017

We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...

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Social Norms, Cognitive Dissonance and the Timing of Marriage

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2007

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage has been favoured by strongly felt social norms, and...

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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems : An Optimum Taxation Approach

Fenge, Robert - 2006

The labor-leisure distortion of a pay-as-you-go pension system can be reduced through a stronger tax-benefit link or Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child-benefit or child pension system. Within our optimal...

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Love Your Leave, Don't Leave Your Love! Paid Parental Leave and Children's Living Arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2017

We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...

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Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses : Evidence from a German Reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that...

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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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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2021

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...

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