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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have …
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estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United … both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn …
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Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …
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We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child … developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per …
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education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i … attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the … inputs are important in shaping these skills, these results align with the notion that education may make women more …
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