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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357980
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360911
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366230
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Teenage pregnancies and birth in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373670
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Religion predicting fertility behaviour of young women in contemporary Germany
Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth …Religion Predicting Fertility Behaviour of Young Women in Contemporary GermanyReligion in contemporary Germany is … marked by institutionalized outreach as well as increased pluralisation. Religion can thus play a decisive role in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301243
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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013
Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340561
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721639
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Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations : evidence from SOEP
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106101
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Brother sun, sister moon : the lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010
Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934973
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Returns to Childbirth Technologies : Evidence from Preterm Births
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2014
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061603