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New evidence on son preference among immigrant households in the United States
Duan, Huiqiong; Hicks, Daniel L. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/14, pp. 1-28
This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant populations in the United States using Census and American Community Survey data. We first confirm the existing evidence of son preference among immigrant populations from South East...
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Socio-economic circumstances at birth and early motherhood : the case of the "Daughters of the Wall"
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 113-129
fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …
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Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes
Machado, Matilde P.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 407-439
Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and … ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We … women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States …
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The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran
Azimi, Ebrahim - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-11
exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …
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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms
Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706
employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large … that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …
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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes
Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141
Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …
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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...
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Children from migrant backgrounds : who are their Kita peers?
Gambaro, Ludovica - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 51/52, pp. 559-566
In Germany, attendance in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers has soared in the last twenty years, making them a key context in which children learn. For children from migrant backgrounds who speak a foreign language at home, participation in ECEC has the potential of providing...
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