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Privatization and the postsocialist fertility decline
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Privatization
Uncertainty
Fertility
Social Reproduction
Eastern Europe
Uncertainty
Fertility
Social Reproduction
Eastern Europe
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/14131
Abstract
In this article, we analyze the privatization of companies as a potential but so far neglected,factor behind the postsocialist fertility decline. We test this hypothesis using a novel database,comprising information on the demographic and enterprise trajectories of 52 Hungarian towns,between 1989-2006 and a cross-country dataset of 28 countries in Eastern Europe. We fit fixed,and random-effects models adjusting for potential confounding factors and control for time-variant,factors and common trends. We find that privatization is significantly associated with fertility,decline, explaining approximately half of the overall fertility decline across the 52 towns and the 28 countries.
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Working paper
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2020
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https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3748301