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Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …
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The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on January 1st, 2007 or later. The new Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off...
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fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …
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In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for infl uencing behavior, particularly as regards reproductive decisions....
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German reunification to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …
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This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in Indonesia, are effective in advising young women to delay their first birth and also influence the decision on post-primary school attendance. Using the Indonesian Family Life...
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Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility … rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is … limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility trends before and after 23 pension reforms using a long-run panel …
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. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … the fertility behavior of native women. …
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