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New evidence on son preference among immigrant households in the United States

Duan, Huiqiong; Hicks, Daniel L. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/14, pp. 1-28

This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant populations in the United States using Census and American Community Survey data. We first confirm the existing evidence of son preference among immigrant populations from South East...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

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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...

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Socio-economic circumstances at birth and early motherhood : the case of the "Daughters of the Wall"

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 113-129

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...

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Are immigrants healthier than native residents? : immigrants tend to be healthier than native residents when they arrive - an advantage that dissipates with time

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...

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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...

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Cultural integration of first-generation immigrants : evidence from European Union countries

Giovanis, Eleftherios; Akdede, Sacit Hadi - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 15 (2023) 2, pp. 97-125

In this study, we aim to explore and compare the frequency of attendance and the reasons for non-attendance to cultural activities between natives and first-generation immigrants in thirteen European countries. The empirical analysis relies on data from the special module on cultural...

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Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes

Machado, Matilde P.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 407-439

Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and … ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We … women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States …

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The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran

Azimi, Ebrahim - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-11

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

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