‘No, Thank You, Mr Stork!’: Voluntary Childlessness in Weimar and Contemporary Germany

Thank You, Mr Freud

At first sight the prospect is full of promise: trained psychiatric nurse and ex-schizophrenic gets a job in a small, Home Counties psychiatric unit, run in an endearingly informal fashion by a mixed bunch of continental and cockney staff. But the (writing) manner and a determined resolution to squeeze the last bit of humour out of every situation (including a good many that just don't have it)...

A model of voluntary childlessness

Demographers and sociologists have studied why women remain childless for more than two decades; however, this specific choice of zero fertility has not interested economists. Permanent childlessness, in developed countries, can concern up to 30 % of the women in a cohort. Childlessness rates can be positively related to average fertility for some cohorts of women. This paper provides an explan...

1 Unemployment in Weimar Germany January 2004

This paper contributes to the debate on the causes of unemployment in interwar Germany. It applies the Layard-Nickell model of the labour market to interwar Germany. The basic model is extended to capture the effects of the tariff wage under the Weimar Republic and the Nazis. The results of the estimation suggest that demand shocks combined with nominal inertia in the labour market were importa...

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A scientific journal exists only because of the good will and assistance of its reviewers. We can only publish less than a fifth of the papers we receive and, in making our decisions, we depend on the expertise of many people. This year a total of 315 reviewers have helped us to decide about the papers that we should publish. Their names are listed below and we would like to take this opportuni...

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