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The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices : Evidence from Brazil
Braga, Breno - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … important driver of changes in fertility outcomes of young women. Changes in women's employment opportunities are not a mediator … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to …
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When Women's Work Disappears : Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Peru
Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velasquez, Andrea - 2023
evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345566
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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy - 2023
administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350643
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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870233
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023394
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028149
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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration : Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2010
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144391
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
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Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification : Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022647
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Ichino, Andrea - 2011
children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126145