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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different times. We find that women from countries...

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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

Deutschland zum Zeitpunkt der Migration verwendet. Die Schätzergebnisse eines linearen Fixed-Effects-Ansatzes zeigen, dass … Fertilitätskultur einen signifikanten Anteil der Fertilitätsunterschiede zwischen Einheimischen und Migranten erklärt und positiv mit …, welche besagt, dass die kulturelle Prägung des Ursprungslandes das Verhalten von Migranten dauerhaft beeinflusst. …

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Between here and there : immigrant fertility patterns in Germany

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2011

This paper focuses on the role of the home country's birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different time. We apply generalized Poisson...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375762

The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use exogenous variation from a mandatory reform of compulsory schooling in West Germany to deal with the endogeneity of schooling. In contrast to studies for other developed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572263

The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687925

Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health : nonparametric evidence from four countries

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017

An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due to differences in data, methods, samples, and institutional settings. Taking a more general...

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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that...

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Is additional schooling worthless? : revising the zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018 - This version: August 7, 2018

This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...

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Earnings-dependent parental leave benefit and fertility : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337838

Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using the German Mikrozensus 2010, I...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191933