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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Mario; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...

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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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