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Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …
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when they bear children, their additional income generates the income effect on fertility, which is not different from that …Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women …
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …
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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …
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This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...
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Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed … market work and time with children are strongly interdependent. Economic incentives work primarily through decisions about … hours influences less the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's work hours does. This would imply …
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children's health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in … in poor countries, i.e., child labor, intergenerational flows from children to parents, and the effects of child labor on …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …
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