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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013
Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340561
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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339997
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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484381
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Earnings-dependent parental leave benefit and fertility : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337838
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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country ; conference paper
Hener, Timo; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339951
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The lost generation in Europe? : the economic crisis and starting a family ; conference paper
Schaffner, Sandra - 2014 - Preliminary results
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487676
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Daddy months : conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483880
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Fixed-term employment and fertility : theory and evidence from German micro data ; conference paper
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339875
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy : conference paper
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2013
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342106
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Permanent changes in the wage structure and the East German fertility crisis : conference paper
Arntz, Melanie; Gathmann, Christina - 2014 - This version: February 14, 2014
After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0 … suggest that women postpone fertility when the wage penalty for time off work in the current period are high; and the … fertility decline and demonstrate that incentives in the labor market have a strong influence on fertility decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486685