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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 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 …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (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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Bargaining, Altruism, and Demographic Phenomena
Stark, Oded - In: Population and Development Review 10 (1984) 4, pp. 679-692
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Do Religious Children Care More and Provide More Care for Older Parents? A Study of Filial Norms and Behaviors across Five Nations
Stark, Oded - In: Journal of Comparative Family Studies 41 (2010) 4, pp. 629-631
We propose an explanation for the provision of attention and care to aged parents; we suggest a reason why the presence of young children could support rather than inhibit the provision of this care; and we provide an explanation as to why daughters are more often observed to provide attention...
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Malthusian stagnation is efficient
Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical Economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460
environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully … et al. (2007). We also show that efficient allocation in the endogenous fertility case differs significantly from its … exogenous fertility counterpart. In particular, optimal steady state population is proportional to the amount of fixed resources …
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Quasi-experimental evidence for the causal link between fertility and subjective well-being
Priebe, Jan - In: Journal of Population Economics 33 (2020) 3, pp. 839-882
This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …
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Wahl der Kinderbetreuung hängt in Westdeutschland auch mit der Persönlichkeit der Mütter zusammen
Bjerre, Liv; Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 41, pp. 20-26
Mit dem Ausbau der außerhäuslichen Betreuungsangebote, insbesondere für Kinder unter drei Jahren, nutzen immer mehr Kinder dieser Altersgruppe Kindertageseinrichtungen. Diese formelle Betreuung wird häufig mit der Betreuung durch Großeltern oder andere Personen kombiniert. Welche...
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Do parents drink their children's welfare? Intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
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Nicht ausgeschöpfte Potenziale in der Kita-Platzvergabe
Carlsson, Sissa; Thomsen, Stephan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 83 (2014) 1, pp. 183-198
Die Bereitstellung von Betreuungsplätzen für Kinder unter drei Jahren ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf. Seit dem 1. August 2013 haben Eltern in Deutschland einen Rechtsanspruch auf die Betreuung. Aber nicht allein die Bereitstellung einer...
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Does better, cheaper day care make for more satisfied parents?
Camehl, Georg F.; Stahl, Juliane F.; Schober, Pia S.; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 45/46, pp. 604-611
Following the major expansion of day care provision in Germany in recent years, the quality of these programs has increasingly also been the subject of public debate. When evaluating the quality of German day care centers, experts have frequently concluded that there is considerable room for...
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