The Easterlin hypothesis emphasizes the effect of relative cohort size on fertility. Models based on the Easterlin … hypothesis have performed well in explaining time series fertility data, although these results have been for long historical … hypothesis still holds and if the success of the Easterlin hypothesis is an artifact of the time period chosen. We use panel data …

In Bezug auf Bildung und Ausbildung werden in Deutschland durch die Bildungsberichte und auf europäischer Ebene mit der …

explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility … in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain … complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …

provision. Despite a rise in its overall supply of formal childcare Germany, however, still lags far behind France in this …

Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births …-tiered demographic system. A group of “insiders” were able to marry, and experienced both high marital fertility and high infant and …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I … not display any catch-up effects. I also find a substantial heterogeneity inWest and East Germany. Because the reform …

-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at …This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for … cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …