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Baby-boom, baby-bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2014

The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...

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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 single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...

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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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Brañas-Garza, Pablo (contributor); … - 2006

The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at current religiosity as well as exposure to religiosity...

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World war 2, missing men, and out-of-wedlock childbearing

Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor); Bethmann, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

Based on county-level census data for the German state of Bavaria in 1939 and 1946, we use World War II as a natural experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls of men to women significantly increased the...

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Divorce and the birth control pill

Marcén, Miriam - 2013

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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Struggling for new lives : family and fertility policies in the Soviet Union and modern Russia

Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2016

During the 20th century, Russian women were assigned the triple role of social and political activists, workers, caregivers and mothers. This paper makes an overview of the main steps undertaken first by the Soviet and later by the modern Russian governments to influence family formation models...

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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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Common law marriage and teen births

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2015

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage (CLM) laws in the US affect teen birth rates. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as four states repealed the law over the period of study. We find...

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