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    Kinship Institutions and Sex Ratios in India

    This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio ...

    In: Demography 47 (2010), 4, S. 989-1012 | Tanika Chakraborty, Sukkoo Kim
  • SOEPpapers 331 / 2010

    Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

    The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well as the differential fertility pattern of educational groups in Germany. Then we simulate alternative reforms ...

    2010| Hans Fehr, Daniela Ujhelyiova
  • SOEPpapers 299 / 2010

    Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

    This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...

    2010| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • Diskussionspapiere 998 / 2010

    Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

    This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...

    2010| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • SOEPpapers 296 / 2010

    Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

    Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are not only made by foreigners. Many naturalized migrants send money home as well. Here, we focus on transnational networks and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 200 ...

    2010| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • SOEPpapers 315 / 2010

    The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects

    German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We separately consider women of high and low incomes, which were treated differently under the old "Erziehungsgeld"-regime, ...

    2010| Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn
  • Weekly Report 29 / 2010

    Do Internet Credit Markets Improve Access to Credit for Female Business Owners?

    Business owners and founders are a minority of any bank's business clients. Scientific studies of traditional credit markets often show a lower probability of loan approval or higher loan costs for female business owners compared to male business owners. With this background the question arises whether female business owners have to struggle with this problem less on Internet credit markets. In this ...

    2010| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
  • Diskussionspapiere 1042 / 2010

    Job Flows, Demographics and the Great Recession

    The recession the United States economy entered in December of 2007 is considered to be the most severe downturn the country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 - the highest we have seen since the 1982 recession. In this paper we examine the severity of this recession compared to those in the past by examining worker flows ...

    2010| Eva Sierminska, Yelena Takhtamanova
  • Diskussionspapiere 1037 / 2010

    Income and Longevity Revisited: Do High-Earning Women Live Longer?

    The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household income. Following the procedure first used by Hupfeld (2010), we analyze a large data set from the German ...

    2010| Friedrich Breyer, Jan Marcus
  • SOEPpapers 307 / 2010

    Personality and Marital Surplus

    This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the relationship between psychological traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and cohabiting partnerships. Changing patterns of selection into and out of relationships indicate that the determinants of marital surplus have altered between older cohorts who were born in the years after ...

    2010| Shelly Lundberg
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