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Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own...

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey

Kırdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2011

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...

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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …

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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

Halla, Martin - 2015

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?

Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015

The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany...

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous … involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Mario; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates...

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Birth order and health of newborns : what can we learn from Danish registry data?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Molitor, Ramona - 2015

Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

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Timing of college enrollment and family formation decisions

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; … - 2014

The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system...

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