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Birth Weight and Physical Stature in St. Petersburg : Living Standards of Women in Russia, 1980–2005

Mironov, Boris - 2007

We analyze data on the height and weight of mothers and newborn babies between 1980 and 2005 in St. Petersburg, Russia. We find that women's living standards, as measured by their height, improved steadily from the end of World War II through those born in 1972, hence reached adulthood in 1990....

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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia using a dynamic model of fertility and employment

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - 2013

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis … model of fertility and labor force participation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. We find that the … program increased long-run fertility by about 0.15 children per woman. …

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Struggling for new lives : family and fertility policies in the Soviet Union and modern Russia

Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2016

Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … spheres (maternity/paternity leaves, workplace flexibility measures), fertility promotion, childbearing and childcare support …

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Does current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different educational groups?

Kalabichina, Irina E.; Tyndik, Alla - 2014

This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different … cognitive and emotional aspects of fertility behaviour (to give birth the next child). One of the important results of this …

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Happiness Convergence in Transition Countries

Guriev, Sergei - 2018

The “transition happiness gap” has been one of the most robust findings in the life satisfaction literature. Until very recently, scholars using various datasets on life satisfaction have shown that residents of post-communist countries were significantly less satisfied with their lives than...

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Consumption Smoothing and Vulnerability in Russia

Gerry, Christopher J. - 2013

Applying bootstrapped quantile regression to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) data, we examine the channels through which individuals experience and seek to cope with changes in consumption. We find that married individuals living in small households, with educated heads in...

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Young Children and Women's Labour Force Participation in Russia, 1992-2004

Grogan, Louise - 2015

We document the changing labour force participation patterns of women with young children in Russia during 1992–2004. In this period maternity leave benefits became less generous, and childcare was privatized and became increasingly scarce. Using nationally representative household survey data...

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Fertility Transitions in Developing Countries : Convergence, Timing, and Causes

Papagni, Erasmo - 2020

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the … transitioning countries from those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by …

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Does Current Demographic Policy in Russia Impact on Fertility of Different Educational Groups? Results from Quantitative and Qualitative Studies

Kalabikhina, Irina - 2014

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Birth Rate In Russia In 2020 : Regional Dynamic

Kazenin, Konstantin - 2021

In the wake of the birth rate stabilization in the country as a whole, the majority of regions demonstrated a trend to reduce the birth rate of the first child and to increase the birth rate of third and subsequent children. The stability of this trend means a simultaneous increase in...

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