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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316256
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723522
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117792
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953697
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960102
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Autor, David H. - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009865
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316098
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946918