sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their …This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …

-time employment for women, including mothers. The West German system by contrast deterred women in general, and mothers in particular … this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on …