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The association between women’s economic participation and physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women: A case study for Turkey
In our recently published work, we test in how far women’s economic participation can be associated with physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women in Turkey, by mobilizing the Survey “National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey” (wave … Continue reading
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The Subjective Cost of Young Children: A European Comparison
Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and IEP Sciences Po Paris (OSC) have investigated how the birth of a child affects the objective and subjective economic situation of young parents in Europe. The results are … Continue reading
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Female education, technologies and the demographic transition: A virtuous circle
Source: https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/female-education-technologies-and-the-demographic-transition/?lang=en Studying the demographic transition in developing countries calls for a long-term perspective. Taking into account intergenerational dynamics, as well as the evolution of technical progress, enables identification of the drivers of increased female education, which has multiple positive … Continue reading
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Facilitating family enlargement in Europe through dual parental employment
Using European panel data from 2003 to 2011 (EU-SILC), Angela Greulich, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière and Olivier Thévenon (2017) show that dual-earner couples are more likely to have a second child than couples with only one earner. This is especially the case … Continue reading
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The reason the richest women in the US are the ones having the most kids
https://qz.com recently published an interesting article about the socioeconomic differential of fertility behavior in the US: It’s one of the best-established relationships in economics: as women’s education and income levels go up, the number of children they have goes down. … Continue reading
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First birth postponement and fertility in Europe
The postponement of first childbirth has been occurring in most European countries for some decades now. In public and media discussion, delayed childbearing is often rather glibly associated with the fact that more women are going to university and getting … Continue reading
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Pour un congé parental court, bien rémunéré et partagé entre les parents
Le congé parental a connu d’importantes modifications au nom de l’égalité hommes-femmes et pour inciter les pères à y avoir recours. Pourtant, la réforme peine à se montrer efficace. Pour aller plus loin, la France doit raccourcir la durée du … Continue reading
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Lessons from Europe? What Japan Can Learn from European Family Policies.
Most developed countries with relatively high fertility rates around replacement level (2.1 children per women), like France or the Nordic countries, have a comprehensive mix of different family policy instruments. The reason why these countries have been experiencing a re-increase … Continue reading
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Two or three children? Turkish fertility at a crossroads.
In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared to other European countries. However, Turkey stands on the brink of an important social transition. Increasing female education and employment are being accompanied by … Continue reading
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Rebond de la fécondité » dans les pays développés, automatisme ou apanage de quelques rares privilégiés ?
L’inversion de la tendance, appelée « rebond de la fécondité », qui accompagne le processus de développement économique dans certains pays développés, mais pas dans tous, montre que l’incidence du développement économique sur la fécondité est ambiguë. Le caractère positif … Continue reading
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