The Cohort '18 - Growing Up In Hungary longitudinal research programme was launched back in 2017 by the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. This longitudinal research project aims to describe what it is like as a child to grow up in Hungary and...

Within less than one hundred years during the 20th century, the transition countries of Europe2 – as they are labelled today – experienced two radical social transformations. The communist take-over was the first which reached them at various points of time between 1917 and 1949. The period...

The paper analyses the ‘Europeanization’ of policies concerning the reconciliation of work and family life in Hungary between 1998 and 2005. It looks at how politicians – in government or in the opposition – framed European requirements and/or standards and how they used references to...

Our argument is that the importance of parent's schooling and female share of employment on children's schooling will vary by gender, ethnicity and economic system. We examine this issue across Germany, Hungary and the former Soviet Union. Our results indicate that there is a direct effect of...

Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism in Hungary. With respect to evaluating the effects of the regime change, it is important to note that Hungary is unique in having pre-transition measures on attitudes from the...

This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy`s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range of degrees and to open new sites in...

Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses thedeterminants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes...