Similar Search Results

Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308525

Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024

Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528272

Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa

Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021

Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change … drive international migration decisions within the region and toward Europe. The findings show that drier soil conditions …Migration ist eine der Möglichkeiten, welche die westafrikanische Bevölkerung nutzen kann, um sich an die negativen …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607104

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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581042

Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany

Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017

The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745678

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 instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764444

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903701

The dynamics of assortative mating in Germany

Grave, Barbara S.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012

This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580134

A theory of child adoption

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580151

Gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants

Flake, Regina - 2011

parental integration measured by parents' years since migration. First, intergenerational earnings elasticities are estimated … (im)mobile as the native population. -- International migration ; second-generation migrants ; intergenerational mobility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580257