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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country ; conference paper
Hener, Timo; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339951
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604
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An Investigation into Out-of-School Children : Evidence from Iran
Mokhtari, MohammadAli - 2023
Even though children are legally required to attend school, many do not, especially in the developing world. This study uses rich microdata from Iran to investigate out-of-school children aged 7 to 18. The first finding shows that adolescent out-of-school boys are involved in child labor eight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347935
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The demand for season of birth
Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016
We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517591
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011
and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121743
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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043695
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Estimating the Effect of Fertility Decisions on Child Labor and Schooling
Deb, Partha; Rosati, Furio C. - 2014
We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185221
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Does the Stork Deliver Happiness? Parenthood and Life Satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164360
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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