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Kumo, Kazuhiro; Perugini, Cristiano - 2023

extent they, in turn, materialize into fertility decisions. We also test the hypothesis that exposure to gender … impact of gender beliefs on fertility. Our empirical analysis is based on World Value Survey (WVS) data for five Muslim ex … turn, do not translate into higher fertility in Muslim ex-USSR Republics, while the opposite holds for other Muslim …

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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign Extends Life Expectancy: A Study of Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents

Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024

Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …

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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...

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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...

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Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, 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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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...

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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities : Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Del Bono, Emilia - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction

Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005

Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …

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