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This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist financial incentives on babies. I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers provided to families with newborn babies and the universe of birth, death, and migrant registry records in South Korea. I...
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The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …
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I model the strategic interaction between scientists aiming for promotion and a research institution that seeks a highly productive faculty by setting a maternity allowance in the form of a minimum promotion standard. The model shows that maternity allowances need not derive from moral justice...
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(partnerships, marriages, and childbearing) of modern Russian women. The quantitative research conducted on 2,229 individual … biographies of women between 19 and 43 implies the use of descriptive analysis and Event History Analysis (Cox regression) within … characterized as mostly immobile (more than two thirds of women never experienced migration, at least before age 43). The paper …
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case if China had not implemented the policy. The methodology we introduced in estimating the number of “missing women … of approximately 11 million missing women in China, and contributed to more than 50% of its outstanding gender imbalance …
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participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women’s fertility and … discontinuities following childbirth. Using new longitudinal datasets that cover the work and family life of women in the Federal … that in both parts of Germany women’s probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …
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We propose a unified economic model of sexual exchanges that treats both unpaid and paid sex as outcomes of individual time allocation decisions. Departing from existing literature that separates sex into marital relations or specialized markets, the model incorporates relational skills, gender...
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We develop a rational choice model of sexual exchange that unifies marriage and paid sex, explaining two key facts: the gendered segregation of sex markets and the decline in sexual activity and fertility. Individuals choose whether to engage in paid or unpaid sex based on income, human capital,...
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that the effects of women's education in the revaluing of their time had a very significant influence on fertility decline … practices were forbidden, and labour force participation of women was politically and socially constrained …
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The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930918