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Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2019

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...

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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood

Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...

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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …

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Employment vs. homestay and the happiness of women in the South Caucasus

Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto - 2020

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...

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Fertility assimilation of immigrants : evidence from count data models

Mayer, Jochen; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the … economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses …

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 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 stress cost of children

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023

fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings … selection into fertility show that common intuitions regarding parallel trend assumptions may be misleading, and that pre …

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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024

while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …

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