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Struggling for new lives : family and fertility policies in the Soviet Union and modern Russia
Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2016 - Revised version
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545124
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Struggling for new lives : family and fertility policies in the Soviet Union and modern Russia
Skoglund, Ekaterina - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482657
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
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Going beyond the first child : analysis of Russian mothers' desired and actual fertility
Levin, Victoria; Besedina, Elena; Aritomi, Tami - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454057
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Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents in Soviet-era Russia
Schief, Matthias; Vogt, Sonja; Churilova, Elena; … - 2023
sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late … 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than those of other ethnic groups in Russia. This finding suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304512
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016 - This version: 10th June 2016
This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486110
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Corruption and fertility : evidence from OECD countries
Yamamura, Eiji - 2011
This paper uses panel data of OECD countries during the period 1995–2003 to examine how corruption affects fertility … suggest that the fertility rate is higher in less corrupted countries. From this, the argument can be made that lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524839
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Family planning program effects : a review of evidence from microdata
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460250
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040311