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  1. Social capital and fertility intentions
    the case of Italy, Bulgaria, and West Germany
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Vienna Inst. of Demography, Vienna

    Despite the many differences that exist between Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany, the three countries are among those with the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of informal... more

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    Despite the many differences that exist between Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany, the three countries are among those with the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of informal supportive networks in daily life. Italy and Bulgaria, on the one hand, share very low levels of public support. In both countries, consequently, informal supportive networks based on family relationships and kinship have a strong tradition and a high relevance for getting things done. In Germany, however, support by family policy is much stronger and the importance of such supportive networks is weaker. The paper addresses the question whether these different constellations of public and informal social support have an impact on reproductive decision-making. In particular, it concentrates on the impact of supportive networks on intentions to have a second child. Analyses based on data from the "Generations and Gender Programme", a comparative survey that was conducted recently in all three countries, provide mixed results. While there is a significant influence of access to informal support on the intention to have a second child in Bulgaria and no significant effect in West Germany, findings for Italy obviously contradict theoretical propositions and suggest that future analysis takes more comprehensive account of the work strategy of the mothers in the context of the current Italian labour market characteristics.

     
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    Language: English
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    Series: Working papers / Vienna Institute of Demography ; 2/2012
    Subjects: Sozialkapital; Fertilität; Soziales Netzwerk; Familienplanung; Italien; Bulgarien; Westdeutsche Bundesländer; Social capital; fertility; fertility intentions; informal help; informal support
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  2. Can pro-marriage policies work?
    an analysis of marginal marriages
    Author: Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ., Dep. of Economics, Linz

    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... more

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    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 absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we exploit the suspension of a cash-on-hand marriage subsidy in Austria to examine the differential behavior of marginal and average marriages. The announcement of this suspension led to an enormous marriage boom (plus 350 percent) among eligible couples that allows us to identify marginal marriages. Applying a difference-in-differences approach, we show that marginal marriages are surprisingly as stable as average marriages, but have fewer children and have them later in marriage. Notably, the children born to marginal marriages are similar in terms of health at birth.

     
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    Series: Working paper / Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz ; 1209
    Subjects: Ehe; Familienpolitik; Wirkungsanalyse; Fertilität; Österreich; marriage-promoting policies; marriage subsidies; marital instability; divorce; fertility
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  3. Gender-discriminatory premarital investments, fertility preferences, and breastfeeding in Egypt
    Author: Chakravarty, Abhishek
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ. of Essex, Dep. of Economics, Colchester

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    Series: Discussion paper series / University of Essex, Department of Economics ; 723
    Subjects: Breastfeeding; fertility; gender bias; Egypt
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  4. The economics of grief
    Author: Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of... more

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    We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit the longitudinal dimension of the data and deal with a range of selection issues. We distinguish between effects on labor and various non-labor income components and we consider patterns over time. We find that labor market effects are persistent.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7010
    Subjects: Kindersterblichkeit; Depressive Störung; Arbeitsangebot; Erwerbsverlauf; Schweden; Bereavement; labor supply; child mortality; depression; sickness absenteeism; employment; marriage; death; divorce; mental health; fertility
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  5. The economics of grief
    Author: Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Inst. for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Uppsala

    We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of... more

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    We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit the longitudinal dimension of the data and deal with a range of selection issues. We distinguish between effects on labor and various non-labor income components and we consider patterns over time. We find that labor market effects are persistent.

     
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    Series: Working paper / IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy ; 2012:23
    Subjects: Kindersterblichkeit; Depressive Störung; Arbeitsangebot; Erwerbsverlauf; Schweden; Bereavement; labor supply; child mortality; depression; sickness absenteeism; employment; marriage; death; divorce; mental health; fertility
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  6. Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?
    Author: Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ., Dep. of Economics, Linz

    We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to analyze the... more

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    We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total money transfer received by mothers after divorce. We interpret these results as evidence against Becker-Coase bargains and in support of a mechanism driven by a resource redistribution that favors men giving them greater incentives to invest in marriage specific capital.

     
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    Series: Working paper / Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz ; 1212
    Subjects: Fertilität; Familienplanung; Privater Haushalt; Sozialstaat; Wirkungsanalyse; OECD-Staaten; divorce; fertility; bargaining; intrahousehold allocations; Austria
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  7. A cross-national perspective on unemployment and first births
    Author: Schmitt, Christian
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  ZBW, Kiel [u.a.]

    This article investigates the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first child. Using micro-data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), I apply event history methods to analyze first-birth decisions in France, West... more

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    This article investigates the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first child. Using micro-data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), I apply event history methods to analyze first-birth decisions in France, West Germany, and the UK (1994-2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can be attributed to the inability to financially support a family. Among women, unemployment exerts a positive effect on the propensity to have a first child in Germany and the UK, where institutional settings aggravate work-family conflicts. Unemployment increases the likelihood of family formation among women with a moderate or low level of education. This does not, however, generally apply to French women or to highly educated women in Germany and the UK, who, when unemployed, favour a quick return to work over motherhood.

     
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    Parent title: Sonderdruck aus: European Journal of Population, 2012 Vol. 28, Iss. 3, pp. 303-335;
    Subjects: fertility; first birth; cross-national comparison unemployment; welfare states
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  8. A reversal in the relationship of human development with fertility?
    Author: Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Courant Research Centre, Göttingen

    For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility rates started... more

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    For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility rates started to increase again in various developed countries. Myrskylä et al (2009) argue that the relationship of the human development index (HDI) with the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (increases in HDI are associated with decreases in TFR) to positive (increases in HDI are associated with increases in TFR) at a HDI level of 0.85. We revisit this topic and find that the reversal in the HDI-TFR relationship is neither robust to UNDP’s recent revision in the HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices.

     
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    Edition: First version: May 2012, This Version: June 2012
    Series: Discussion papers / Courant Research Centre ; 114
    Subjects: Human development; education; health; standard of living; fertility
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