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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 134 (2014) 3, pp. 305-340

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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

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Economic insecurity and fertility intentions : the case of Italy

Modena, Francesca; Rondinelli, Concetta; Sabatini, Fabio - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014), pp. 233-255

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Baby-boom, baby-bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2014

is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …

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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

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Bringing it all back home : return migration and fertility choices

Bertoli, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 65 (2015), pp. 27-40

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Diverging stories of “missing women” in South Asia : is son preference weakening in Bangladesh?

Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Mahmud, Simeen - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 4, pp. 138-163

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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014

This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …

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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

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