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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …
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Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or … property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion …
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norms and in particular on the 'religious taste for children'. The theoretical framework describes the setting and the …
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In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …
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norms and in particular on the 'religious taste for children'. The theoretical framework describes the setting and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141739
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was...
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This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual level data for 14 countries. I...
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This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual-level data for 14 countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274011
This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual level data for 14 countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003117825