Volume 29

Issue 1, January 2016

News

2016 Kuznets Prize awarded to Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow, and Hui Wang

Original Papers

Cesarean sections and subsequent fertility
Karen Norberg, Juan Pantano

Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses: evidence from a German reform
Kamila Cygan-Rehm

Integration policy: Cultural transmission with endogenous fertility
Sagit Bar-Gill, Chaim Fershtman

On the heterogeneity of dowry motives
Raj Arunachalam, Trevon D. Logan

Economic conditions and the living arrangements of young adults: 1960 to 2011
Jordan D. Matsudaira

Does the military turn men into criminals? New evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries
Peter Siminski, Simon Ville, Alexander Paull

The importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of crime
Karin Hederos Eriksson, Randi Hjalmarsson, Matthew J. Lindquist, Anna Sandberg

Steady streams and sudden bursts: persistence patterns in remittance decisions
Giulia Bettin, Riccardo Lucchetti

Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination
Arusha Cooray, Friedrich Schneider

Report

29th General Assembly of the European Society for Population Economics, Izmir, 2015

Issue 2, April 2016

Original Papers

The effect of high-stakes testing on suicidal ideation of teenagers with reference-dependent preferences
Liang Choon Wang

New evidence on the healthy immigrant effect
Lídia Farré

Does granting citizenship to immigrant children affect family outmigration?
Christoph Sajons

Relational contracts for household formation, fertility choice and separation
Matthias Fahn, Ray Rees, Amelie Wuppermann

The unintended effects of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from the Safe Motherhood Scheme in India
Arindam Nandi, Ramanan Laxminarayan

Long-term effect of in utero conditions on maternal survival later in life: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Alison B. Comfort

Housewife, “gold miss,” and equal: the evolution of educated women’s role in Asia and the U.S.
Jisoo Hwang

My parents taught Me. Evidence on the family transmission of values
Giuseppe Albanese, Guido De Blasio, Paolo Sestito

Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime
Songman Kang

Population and development redux
Javier A. Birchenall

Issue 3, July 2016

Original Papers

Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen

The impact of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents
Irene Mosca, Alan Barrett

Legalization and human capital accumulation
Fabio Méndez, Facundo Sepúlveda, Nieves Valdés

Welfare reform and immigrant fertility
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan L. Averett, Cynthia A. Bansak

Illegal immigration, deportation policy, and the optimal timing of return
Alexandra Vinogradova

Ethnic assortative matching in marriage and family outcomes: evidence from the mass migration to the US during 1900–1930
Ho-Po Crystal Wong

A comparative analysis of immigrant skills and their utilization in Australia, Canada, and the USA
Andrew Clarke, Mikal Skuterud

The effects of teenage childbearing on adult soft skills development
Jason Fletcher, Norma Padrón

Transforming lives: the impact of compulsory schooling on hope and happiness
Bahadır Dursun, Resul Cesur

“How powerful is demography? The serendipity theorem revisited” comment on De la Croix et al. (2012)
Stefan Felder