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More schooling, more children? : compulsory schooling and fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

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

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates …

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When is the best time to give birth?

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2014

Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of...

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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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Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017

The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...

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