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German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …
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Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current … studies of migration raise the importance and role of religion in the international migration flows, distinguish between the … reconfiguration of religions in the contemporary world. Religion often inspires migration, as religious minority groups facing …
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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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A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the period 1750-2000, we test, for the first time,...
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Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...
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