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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle …. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

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How policy matters: Germany’s parental leave benefit reform and fathers’ behavior 1999-2009

Geisler, Esther; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555822

Maternity leave in turbulent times: effects on labor market transitions and fertility in Russia, 1985-2000

Gerber, Theodore P.; Perelli-Harris, Brienna - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women’s employment and fertility, but whether they actually play such a role remains unclear. We analyze the individual-level effects of maternity leave on employment outcomes and on second conception rates among Russian...

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Additional work, family agriculture, and the birth of a first or a second child in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s

Bühler, Christoph - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

At the beginning of the transition period, many Russian households faced substantial economic hardships and uncertainties. An economic downturn had become one of the major factors respon-sible for the significant and rapid decline of Russian fertility. However, many households tried to cope with...

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Differences between male and female fertility in Russia: an evaluation of basic pattern and data quality using the first wave of the Russian GGS

Alich, David - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

While most demographic fertility studies focus on child birth behavior of females, little is known about differences between males and females fertility behavior. The lack of empirical research about men stems from problems such as linking fathers and their biological offspring, biological...

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Transition to modern contraception in Russia: evidence from the 1996 and 1999 Women’s Reproductive Health Surveys

Troitskaia, Irina; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

During the 1990s in Russia both abortion and fertility rates declined rapidly. In the present paper, we shed some light on the extent to which these developments were related to increased use of modern contraception. Two surveys with retrospective information on contraceptive calendars reveal...

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Premarital conception and divorce risk in Russia in light of the GGS data

Jasilioniene, Aiva - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

The paper provides an analysis of divorce risk in first marital unions in Russia, with a major focus on the impact of premarital conception on the stability of subsequent marriage. A number of other predictors are also discussed, including age at first marriage, parity and age of the youngest...

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Traces of the Second Demographic Transition in four selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe: union formation as a demographic manifestation

Hoem, Jan M.; Jasilioniene, Aiva; Kostova, Dora; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

Using data from the first round of the national Gender and Generations Surveys of Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and from a similar survey for Hungary, we study rates of entry into marital and non-marital unions and display manifestations of the Second Demographic Transition in these data. The...

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Downward mobility, unemployment and mortality

Billingsley, Sunnee - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

This research offers fresh evidence 1) on the contribution of social mobility to health differentials by proposing a new link between downward mobility and health: downward mobility itself may have an immediate impact on health, above and beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2)...

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Migration and union dissolution in a changing socio-economic context: the case of Russia

Muszynska, Magdalena M.; Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

A growing body of literature looks at the consequences of family migration from a gender perspective. The studies show that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer from family migration, which is usually stimulated by the career of the male earner in the family. This study extends...

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