environment compared to the crisis years. The sharp decrease in unemployment probably resulted from the introduction of several … targeted policies and embellishment of unemployment statistics. …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

international forums, as they hinge upon human rights standards and access to health services. Although Germany has always advocated …

outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides …

This study examines birth registration for children of adolescent mothers based on family and citizenship concepts, and …, 98 percent of births to adolescent mothers were registered, but only 78 percent of all births to adolescent mothers were … for adolescent mothers, since their offspring are eventually registered, however the timeliness of registration is low for …

policy to influence fertility behaviour and preferences. For effective implementation of such programmes, media plays a … fertility behaviour by an increase in contraceptive use through a mass media campaign. The childbearing dynamics of women is …

estimate a dynamic programming model of fertility decisions with microdata on fertility histories. We leverage the quasi … reduce fertility by allowing parents to efficiently reach their preferred sex mix, it could also increase it. This is because …

This paper examines the impact of the social norm of intergenerational support to aging parents on fertility decisions … cycle model that endogenizes fertility choices and incorporates the expectation of transfers from children based on the … norm in 2000s. We conducted counterfactual experiments to explore the impact of the filial responsibility norm on fertility …

previously thought. Births to mothers aged 10-14 are often missing from contemporary administrative records but appear in …, yielding predictions that align with observed patterns: truthful reporting increases markedly with the mothers age, under … older mothers. Our findings suggest that social costs, rather than fear of legal repercussions, are a primary driver of …