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Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
There is a strong debate about who should provide care to young children. Governments offer two alternative types of institutions: formal childcare and parental leave. We assess the effectiveness of these two competing institutions in promoting child development by comparing how a major parental...
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Fertility Effects of College Education: Evidence from the German Educational Expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - 2018
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we …-career effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for non-mothers as compared to mothers the timing …
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Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Maternal Employment, Fertility and Well-Being: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
subsequent births. The program s effect on fertility can be explained by higher maternal life satisfaction and well-being in the … studies from the United States, where home visiting programs increased employment and decreased fertility. …
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Weight Loss and Sexual Activity in adult Obese Individuals: Establishing a Causal Link
Tauchmann, Harald; Reichert, Arndt Rüdiger; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a relationship between weight change and sexual activity in obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is likely to...
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Divorce and the birth control pill
Marcen, Miriam - 2013
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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The effects of early childhood intervention on child development and early skill formation. Evidence from a randomized experiment.
Sandner, Malte - 2012
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children in home visited families perform significantly better than...
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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage: evidence from the Iranian provinces
Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020
We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...
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Paying for the Selected Son: Sex Imbalance and Marriage Payments in China
Xu, Yuanwei - 2021
This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in brideprice payments. The identification relies on comparison between siblings from the same natal family who are born in different birth years and thus exposed to various...
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The Lost Generation in Europe? - the Economic Crisis and Starting a Family
Schaffner, Sandra - 2014
countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...
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