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Cheaper child care, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269052
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Cheaper children, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2008
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273939
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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children: Evidence from a Nationwide Reform
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320201
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Changing parental leave and shifts in second and third-birth rates in Austria
Št'astná, Anna; Sobotka, Tomáš - 2009
subsequent pregnancy. We construct monthly duration and order-specific fertility rates and parity progression ratios to study … rates or on period fertility trends. As in most cases analysed for other developed countries, the main effect of the policy … change was on the tempo of fertility, namely on the spacing of second and third births. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003890398
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Doing science, forgoing childbearing? : evidence from a sample of female scientists in Austria
Buber-Ennser, Isabella; Berghammer, Caroline; … - 2011
by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists’ fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809774
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Wissenschaftlerinnen in Österreich : Zusatzerhebung im Rahmen des GGS ; Dokumentation der Datenerhebung und deskriptive Ergebnisse
Buber-Ennser, Isabella - 2010
the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823186
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283095
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344852