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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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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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. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
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higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that …
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
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approximated by older families' income – on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging …
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significantly affect fertility trends, and ultimately, population age structures. However, policies have ignored the overall impact … of ART coverage on fertility. In this paper, long-term effects of insurance coverage for infertility on the timing of … first births and on total fertility rates are examined. Variation in the enactment of infertility insurance mandates over …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
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