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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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Urban fertility responses to local government programs: evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.

Fox, Jonathan F.; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show that the local government programs of health education and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360145

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’...

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Losses of expected lifetime in the US and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Zhang, Zhen; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

Patterns of diversity in age at death are examined using e†, a dispersion measure that also equals the average expected lifetime lost at death. We apply two methods for decomposing differences in e†. The first method estimates the contributions of average levels of mortality and mortality...

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To concentration of reproduction in cohorts of US and European women

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Houle, René - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

We study inter-individual variability in number of children among women. Concentration ratio (CR) and percentile measures are used. In most countries CR has increasing from cohorts of the 1930s-40s onward due to rise in childlessness. In cohorts of the early 1960s CR varies from 0.24 to 0.46...

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Fertility and family configurations in Sardinia

Bernardi, Laura; Oppo, Anna - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

In this paper we argue that the strength of intergenerational relationships in Italy is one important element in understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be understood in light of the wider context of normative...

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Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality decrease with age. Most research confirms this decrease but the reasons for it and the role of unobserved heterogeneity are unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US...

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Consequences of family policies on childbearing behavior: effects or artifacts?

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This paper argues that theoretical and methodological aspects account for the ambiguous results of investigations into the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of the sociology of “constructed categories”, and of...

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Religion, religiousness and fertility in the U.S. and in Europe

Frejka, Tomas; Westoff, Charles F. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

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Differences in lifespan by month of birth for the United States: the impact of early life events and conditions on late life mortality

Doblhammer, Gabriele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

We find significant differences in the mean age at death by month of birth on the basis of 15 million US death certificates for the years 1989 to 1997: Those born in fall live about 0.44 of a year longer than those born in spring. The difference depends on race, region of birth, marital status,...

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