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Pensions and fertility : micro-economic evidence
Danzer, Alexander M.; Zyska, Lennard - 2020
This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women’s fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil … age by 10% in the short-run. Completed fertility declines by 1.3 children within 20 years after the reform, reducing the … contribution base of the Pay-As-You-Go pension system in the long-run. The fertility response is strongest at higher birth parities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194379
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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003
This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507889
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Social interactions in unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not only directly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511086
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Urban renewal after the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix J. - 2013
Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban decline and induce renewal. We use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effects of 22 renewal areas implemented in Berlin, Germany, to increase housing and living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212381
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Short-term events, long-term friends? : freshman orientation peers and academic performance
Brade, Raphael - 2024
Many organizations use onboarding programs to assist newcomers with the transition process. Are brief social interactions during such programs sufficient to create lasting performance spillovers? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientation program for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514890
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834
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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015
experiment (the effect of boy-boy or girl-girl as the first two children on incremental fertility and mothers’ labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309525
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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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 - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792218
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Children of a (policy) revolution : the introduction of universal child care and its effect on fertility
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347342