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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...

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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

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Relative cohort size and fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean : a panel data approach

Xiao, Linlan; Shields, Michael P. - In: Research in world economy 5 (2014) 2, pp. 135-142

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The impact of children on marital stability in the United Kingdom

Silles, Mary - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 16/18, pp. 1202-1205

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Fostering household formation : evidence from a Spanish rental subsidy

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Oppedisano, Veruska - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 1, pp. 53-84

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Contraception and the fertility transition

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Chakraborty, Shankha - 2014

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Schooling, marriage and age of first birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

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Son preference in India : implications for gender development

Mitra, Aparna - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 48 (2014) 4, pp. 1021-1037

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Daddy months : conference paper

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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The lost generation in Europe? : the economic crisis and starting a family ; conference paper

Schaffner, Sandra - 2014 - Preliminary results

countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …

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