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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. This was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277862
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805049
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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621799
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives
Gelber, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636473
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Urban Informal Sector: How much Women are Struggling for Family Survival
Khan, Tasnim; Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali Khan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: The paper analyzed the contribution of informally employed women (for the age group of 16-60 years) in their household budget. The urban informal sector absorbs the women workers largely. What are the determinants of their contribution in their household budgets to make survival of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027146
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010768962
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Cross-Status Marriage Patterns in Late 17th Century Korea: Statistical Analysis of the Tansŏng Household Registers for 1678
Peterson, Mark A.; Phillips, Kerk L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
estimate probabilities of marriage, both within and outside of one’s social class as functions of age. We find the overwhelming …, particularly older ones, marry commoners and slaves in significant numbers. We document significant differences in the marriage … patterns for craftsmen, as opposed to other commoners. We find strong influences of father and mother’s status on marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543028
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Divorce and the birth control pill
MARCÉN, MIRIAM - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418496
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Reglementări juridice privitoare la familie în legislaţia austriacă şi maghiară din a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
More often than not, the State did not acknowledge the matrimonial norms as settled by the Church. This relation seems to have altered towards the end of the 19th century, when the State succeeded in imposing on the Church the respect for the general civil framework. Yet, the change was not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258624
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Divorţul ca formă de erodare a familiei în comitatele Bihor şi Sătmar (a doua jumătate a secolului XIX)
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Divorce is, irrespective of the perspective of approaching the phenomenon from the point of view of the society typology, a form of social deviance that has as effect the dilution of family image and norms. We do not discuss here of a dilution of the traditional norms concerning family, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259579