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assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
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This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …
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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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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
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involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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The negative correlation between women’s education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women’s education level could affect fertility through its impact on women’s health and …
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Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … spheres (maternity/paternity leaves, workplace flexibility measures), fertility promotion, childbearing and childcare support …
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Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …
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special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …
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