Fertility, economic incentives and individual heterogeneity: Register data-based evidence from France and Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand
Titel	Fertility, economic incentives and individual heterogeneity: Register data-based evidence from France and Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fruchtbarkeit, ökonomische Anreize und individuelle Heterogenität : Erkenntnisse aus Registerdaten für Frankreich und Deutschland.
Quelle	In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A. Statistics in society, 185 (2022) Supplement 2, S. S515-S546 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0035-9238; 0964-1998; 1467-985X
DOI	10.1111/rssa.12941
Schlagwörter	Entscheidung; Generatives Verhalten; Kinderwunsch; Familie; Frau; Kinderbetreuung; Kindertagesstätte; Fruchtbarkeit; Lohnhöhe; Ökonomische Determinanten; Beruf; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; IAB-Biografiedaten; Institution; Deutschland; Frankreich
Abstract	"This study demonstrates the importance of accounting for correlated unobserved heterogeneity to correctly identify the relevance of career and education for fertility decisions. By exploiting individual-level life-cycle information on fertility, career and education from large administrative longitudinal datasets, this paper shows that non-linear panel models produce substantially different results than the cross-sectional approaches widely used in previous studies. Higher opportunity costs of having children are found to be associated with lower fertility within a country, while the magnitude of the adjustment differs strongly across countries. In Germany, fertility decisions are found to depend more on individual circumstances than in France, where better public childcare support enhances the compatibility between family and professional life." The study refers to the period 1994-2017. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1