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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : empirical evidence for Germany

Akkemik, Kucik Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - 2012

This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...

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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting

Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014

The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of … fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …

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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?

Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020

higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

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Effects of motherhood and selection into motherhood : revisiting the 2007 parental benefits reform in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2021

no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …

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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019

Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...

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Culture, children and couple gender inequality

Jessen, Jonas - 2021

This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a gendertraditional culture. The long-run penalty on the...

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Centralized vs decentralized tourism policies : a spatial interaction model framework

Candela, Guido; Mussoni, Maurizio; Patuelli, Roberto - 2015 - This version: 08/05/2015, preliminary version for ERSA Congress 2015

The choice of centralizing tourism policies at the national level or, on the contrary, of decentralizing them at the local level is widely discussed in the literature, which highlights the related pros and cons. In fact, the simultaneous role of originator and attractor of tourism of each...

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 265-281

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