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This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …
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different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
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. As a parallel development, empirical studies exploit multiple sources of exogenous variations in family size, such as … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …
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endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The …
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This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational …
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611320
survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105065