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Immigrant Parents' Preferences for Children's Sex : A Register-Based Study of Fertility Behavior in Ten National-Origin Groups
Lillehagen, Mats; Lyngstad, Torkild - 2014
Parental sex preferences for children have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants’ preferences for the sex of their children. Using high quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we...
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Bargaining over labor : do patients have any power?
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513403
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336961
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the "Children of the Wall"
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209202
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Did parental involvement laws grow teeth? : the effects of state restrictions on minors' access to abortion
Myers, Caitlin K.; Ladd, Daniel - 2017
We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge. Between 1992 - the year the U.S. Supreme Court...
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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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...
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