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particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
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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...
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migrants, who predominantly move on a temporary basis, encounter new fertility norms in their host countries and then bring … them back home. These new fertility norms can be higher or lower than those in their country of origin. So the new … fertility norms that result from migration flows can either accelerate or slow down a demographic transition in migrant …
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The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …
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This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …
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In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
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