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Living Standards and Fertility in Indonesia: A Bayesian Analysis
Mattei, Alessandra; Mealli, Fabrizia; Pudney, Stephen - In: Giornale degli Economisti 68 (2009) 2, pp. 175-210
We investigate the relationship between living standards and fertility, using a three-wave panel dataset from Indonesia … to provide information on women’s fertility histories and the levels of consumption expenditure in the households to … gestation lags to identify causal effects of living standards on fertility and vice versa. …
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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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Determinants of Childbirth in Russia : A Micro-data Approach
KUMO, KAZUHIRO - In: Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 49-69
fertility between 1995 and 2004. The analysis based on micro-data supports the experience of other countries that fertility is …
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Are Fertility Responses to Local Unemployment Shocks Homogenous Across Social Strata? Evidence from England, 1994 to 2010
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …
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Employment, partnership and childbearing decisions of German women and men: A simultaneous hazards approach
Niedergesäss, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the interrelated dynamics of employment, cohabitation and fertility for German women and men …
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Industrial Restructuring with Job Security: The Case of European Steel
Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Labor Market Uncertainty and Private Sector Labor Supply in Russia
Stillman, Steven - RAND - 2000
The development of a vibrant private sector has been one of the key failures of the transitional period of Russia. This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model of individual labor supply behavior under uncertainty, and estimates this model using data from the Russian Longitudinal...
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The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph De; Harmgart, Heike; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 1, pp. 183-203
We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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