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TWO PAPERS ON FERTILITY - THE CASE OF SWEDEN

Westerberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This thesis consists of two papers dealing with fertility in Sweden. In paper [1] we discuss possible explanations for … paper [2] has as starting point the number of children born by women in Sweden. A zero inflated Poisson model is applied to … analyse if economic and social conditions have any impact on the number of children born by women in Sweden. The study is …

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Variations in Fertility - a Consequense of Other Factors Besides Love?

Löfström, Åsa; Westerberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to discuss possible explanations for the variation in the Swedish fertility rate. We are primarily interested in economic and social conditions and their impact on the total fertility rate between 1965 and 2003. The results from the study support a positive ...

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MoreWork, Less Kids - The Relationship Between Market Experience and Number of Children

Westerberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

born by women in Sweden. The results support (not surprisingly) a negative correlation between women’s working …

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Parental leave regulations, mothers' labor force attachment and fathers' childcare involvement : evidence from a natural experiment

Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Marcus - 2012

In 2007 Germany implemented a generous parental leave regulation in order to make parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for mothers. We evaluate the reform using a natural experiment that compares outcomes of parents with children born shortly after and...

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The quality of child care: A signaling game with incomplete information

Fenge, Robert; Wrede, Matthias - 2015

This paper analyzes the e ects of asymmetric information between parents and child care centers about the quality of child care. In a dynamic game of incomplete information the child care center sends a signal about its child care quality. The parents cannot observe the true quality. By updating...

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Pension wealth and maternal employment: Evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother's employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Ausweitung der in der Rentenversicherung anrechenbaren Kindererziehungszeiten: Mütter pausieren nicht länger vom Job

Haan, Peter; Thiemann, Andreas - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 47, pp. 1119-1125

Einer der Gründe, weshalb Frauen meist geringere Rentenansprüche haben als Männer, sind familienbedingte Auszeiten vom Beruf. Um dies abzumildern, rechnet die Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung Kindererziehungszeiten an, während derer Frauen Rentenanwartschaften erwerben, obwohl sie nicht in die...

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Nurture vs. nurture: Endogenous parental and peer effects and the transmission of culture

Vaughan, Daniel - 2013

I propose a model of cultural transmission where children interact strategically with each other with the only desire to fit in, and parents purposefully socialize their children to their own culture. In the empirical section I estimate parental and peer effects using US teenager data on...

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Influence of age of child on differences in life satisfaction of males and females: A comparative study among East Asian countries

Yamamura, Eiji; Rodriguez Andres, Antonio - 2012

Using individual-level data for China,South Korea, and Japan for2006, this research examines how life satisfaction for married males and femalesin East Asian countries isinfluenced bythe age of theirchildren. Our results show that the life satisfaction of males is barely affected by a child of...

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Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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