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Why Do Women Wait? Matching, Wage Inequality, and the Incentives for Fertility Delay
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 815-855
This paper explores the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women. We … fertility. We show how patterns of fertility timing in U.S. data can be explained by the incentives for fertility delay implied … women's wages and fertility timing and the changes over the past 40 years in married women's fertility timing and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085530
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Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models
Mayer, Jochen; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the … economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822551
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624583
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371463
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The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Effects on Employment Intentions
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 131 (2011) 2, pp. 315-325
German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of “Elterngeld” replaced “Erziehungsgeld.” The two programs differ in various respects. We studied the intended effects on the labor supply of young mothers by comparing these women’s employment intentions before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322390
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: A Macroeconomic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851427
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally, assortative mating has risen; i.e., people are more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070868
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2015
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171723
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The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 2, pp. 146-176
We applyGermanMikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556076
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
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