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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility?

Brainerd, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on—and sometimes falling below—rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility?

Brainerd, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

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When Women's Work Disappears : Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Peru

Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velasquez, Andrea - 2023

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy - 2023

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

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The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices : Evidence from Brazil

Braga, Breno - 2018

This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … important driver of changes in fertility outcomes of young women. Changes in women's employment opportunities are not a mediator … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to …

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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2015

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

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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...

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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies

Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena...

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration : Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2010

This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect...

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