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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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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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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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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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