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Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...

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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...

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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain

Adsera, Alicia - 2004

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

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Child care and parental leave in the Nordic countries: a model to aspire to?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Verner, Mette - 2006

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …

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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

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The role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States: a review of the recent literature

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2008

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

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