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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...

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Pensions and fertility incentives

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2003

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

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Schooling, marriage and age of first birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

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Female employment and fertility trajectories in Spain : an optimal matching analysis

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; Legazpe, Nuria - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 28 (2014) 4, pp. 633-650

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Daddy months

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 have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

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Diverging stories of “missing women” in South Asia : is son preference weakening in Bangladesh?

Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Mahmud, Simeen - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 4, pp. 138-163

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Gary Becker on the quantity and quality of children

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

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