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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
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Poverty and transitions in health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michał - 2013 - This version: 22 July 2013
analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in- Differences approach. The analysis is based on...
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Probleme einer steigenden Lebenserwartung in der privaten Rentenversicherung : Theorie und Empirie für Deutschland
Leinert, Johannes; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Eine unerwartet steigende Lebenserwartung führt bei privaten kapitalgedeckten Rentenversicherungsverträgen zu sinkenden Rentenzahlungen und/oder einer Belastung des Versicherungsunternehmens, das verschiedene Möglichkeiten hat, dieser Belastung zu entgegnen. Für Deutschland wird anhand der...
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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of … or fertility patterns. Descriptive evidence suggests that the stronger involvement of fathers, incentivized by the "daddy …
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Building health across generations : unraveling the impact of early childcare on maternal health
Barschkett, Mara; Bosque-Mercader, Laia - 2023
In contemporary households, women often shoulder most organisation and caregiving responsibilities leading them to play a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child outcomes and maternal employment, less attention has been...
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Time-varying spot and futures oil price dynamics
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2010
We investigate the role of crude oil spot and futures prices in the process of price discovery by using a cost-of-carry model with an endogenous convenience yield and daily data over the period from January 1990 to December 2008. We provide evidence that futures markets play a more important...
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Multicointegration in US consumption data
Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2003
The present paper tests for the existence of multicointegration between real per capita private consumption expenditure and real per capita disposable personal income in the USA. In doing so, we exploit the fact that the flows of disposable income and consumption expenditure on the one hand, and...
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