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This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study – a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...
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This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European … determined by the institutional environment. -- Age ; childbirth ; duration ; ECHP ; fertility ; postponement …
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agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …
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We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where having...
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"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...
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cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …
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marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
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the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric …
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; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …
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We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial … flexibility of the labor markets and family policies. -- Intertemporal labor supply ; female employment ; fertility ; dynamic …
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