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Bicakova, Alena - 2016

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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The Wage Effects of Social Norms : Evidence of Deviations from Peers' Body-Mass in Europe

Fahr, René - 2021

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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Bargaining Over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

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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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …

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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, Maria Ángeles - 2016

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...

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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of Their Children : Evidence for Europe

Navarro, Maria - 2012

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...

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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage : The Case of Peru

Favara, Marta - 2016

cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to … 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early …

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Laterborns Don't Give Up : The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco - 2013

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...

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Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children : Evidence from Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Sevilla … - 2021

-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe …

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Immigration and Crime : New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Nunziata, L. - 2014

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...

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