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What explains fertility? : evidence from Italian pension reforms
Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009
Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...
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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the literature on the child quantity …
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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2007
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2012
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...
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Still unequal at birth : birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at Age 9
McGovern, Mark E. - 2011
child, parenting style, or school quality mediate the association between birth weight and later indicators. For test scores …
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from...
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War, marriage markets and the sex ratio at birth
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective …
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Sex ratio and religion in Vietnam
Tien Manh Vu; Yamada, Hiroyuki - 2020
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910, more than seven thousand kindergartens opened their...
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