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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for nonmothers as compared to mothers the timing …

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The impact of a large parental leave benefit reform on the timing of birth around the day of Implementation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

health outcomes of children affected by the shift in date of birth. -- Cut-off date effect ; fertility ; policy evaluation …

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Women's fertility and employment decisions under two political systems : comparing East and West Germany before reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

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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Why are more boys born during war? : evidence from Germany at mid century

Bethmann, Dirk - 2009

In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...

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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages

Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012

and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …

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Job security and fertility : evidence from German reunification

Klemm, Marcus - 2012

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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Brother sun, sister moon : the lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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Who benefits from universal child care? : estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Financial uncertainty in Germany and its impact on Western European terrorism

Jovanović, Mario - 2011

This paper analyses the link between the VDAX as a proxy for European financial uncertainty and the number of terror incidents in Western Europe. Considering data of the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terror incidents does - on average - not affect financial uncertainty. In contrast,...

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A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012

Dang, Rui - 2016

In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...

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