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Printed in Germany © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 PoJouprnalu olf ation Economics © Springer-Verlag 2003 Contents of volume 16 Aassve A » Burgess S Giannelli GC, Monfardini C: Joint decisions on Alvarez B, Miles D: Gender effect on housework household membership and human capital allocation: Evidence from Spanish two-earner accumulation of youths.The role of expected couples 227 earnings and local markets 265 Anderberg D: Voluntary income sharing and the design of unemployment insurance 71 Hallberg D, Klevmarken A: Time for children Andersen TM: European integration and the wel- A study of parents’ time allocation 205 fare state 1 Hartog J, Winkelmann R: Comparing migrants to non-migrants: The case of Dutch migration to Blackburn ML: The effects of the welfare system New Zealand 683 on marital dissolution 477 Huang C-C » Garfinkel| Bommier A, Lee RD: Overlapping generations Husted L >» Nielsen HS models with realistic demography 135 Bratti M: Labour force participation and marital Klevmarken A > Hallberg D fertility of Italian women:The role of education Komlos J > Rees R 525 Burgess S, Propper C, Aassve A: The role of Lee RD +» BommierA income in marriage and divorce transitions Li K, Poirier DJ: Bayesian analysis of an econo- among young Americans 455 metric model of birth inputs and outputs 597 Lin S, Tian X: Population growth and social Card D, Schmidt CM: Editorial 707 security financing 91 Chase RS: Household fertility responses follo- Long NV » Rees R wing communism: Transition in the Czech Longva P, Raaum O: Earnings assimilation of Republic and Slovakia 579 immigrants in Norway — A reappraisal 177 Chevalier A, Viitanen TK: The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood Massey DS_ » Constant A in Britain 323 McLanahan SS _» Garfinkel| Cobb-Clark DA: Public policy and the labor mar- McNown R, Rajbhandary S: Time series analy- ket adjustment of new immigrants to Australia sis of fertility and female labor market behavi- 655 or 501 Constant A, Massey DS: Self-selection, ear- Miles D » Alvarez B nings, and out-migration: A longitudinal study Miyazawa K: Private versus public financing of of immigrants to Germany 631 education and endogenous growth: A com- Cremer H, Dellis A, Pestieau P: Family size and ment on Brauninger and Vidal 395 optimal income taxation 37 Modesto L: Should | stay or should | go? Educa- tional choices and earnings: An empirical Del Boca D: Mothers, fathers and children after study for Portugal 307 divorce: The role of institutions 399 Monfardini C > Giannelli GC Del Boca D: 2000 President of the European Society for Population Economics 397 Nguyen AN, Taylor J: Post-high school choices Dellis A » Cremer H New evidence from a multinomial logit model Djaji¢ S: Assimilation of immigrants: Implictaions 287 for human capital accumulation of the second Nielsen HS, Rosholm M, Smith N, Husted L: The generation 831 school-to-work transition of 2° generation Dos Santos MD, Postel-Vinay F: Migration as a immigrants in Denmark 755 source of growth: The perspective of a deve- loping country 161 Ono T: Social security policy with public debt in Dustmann C: Children and return migration an aging economy 363 815 Oosterbeek H, Sonnemans J, van Veizen S: The need for marriage contracts: An experimental Ekberg » Rooth D-O study 431 Fehr H, Sterkeby WI, Thogersen @: Social secu- Park C: Are children repaying parental loans? rity reforms and early retirement 345 Evidence from Malaysia using matched child- parent pairs 243 Garfinkel |, Huang C-C, McLanahan SS, Gaylin Pestieau P » Cremer H DS: The roles of child support enforcement Poirier DJ -> LiK and welfare in non-marital childbearing 55 Postel-Vinay F -» Dos Santos MD GaylinDS > Garfinkel| Propper C > Burgess S IV Contents of volume 16 RaaumO >» Longva P Taylor J » Nguyen AN Rajbhandary S ~ McNown R Thegersen @ > FehrH Rees R, Komlos J, Long NV, Woitek U; Optimal Tian X > LinS food allocation ina slave economy 21 Riphahn RT: Cohort effects in the educational van Ours JC, Veenman J: The educational attainment of second generation immigrants attainment of second-generation immigrants in Germany: An analysis of census data 711 in The Netherlands 739 Rosholm M > Nielsen HS van Velzen S > Oosterbeek H Rooth D-O, Ekberg J: Unemployment and ear- Veenman J > van Ours JC nings for second generation immigrants in Viitanen TK » Chevalier A Sweden. Ethnic background and parent com- position 787 Wagener A: Pensions as a portfolio problem: fixed contribution rates vs. fixed replacement Schmidt CM > Card D rates reconsidered 111 Scotese Lehr C: Fertility and education premi- Winkelmann R -> Hartog J, ums 555 Woitek U > Rees R Senesi P: Population dynamics and life-cycle consumption 389 Smith N -> Nielsen HS Sonnemans J » Oosterbeek H Sterkeby WI > FehrH Strobel F: Marriage and the value of waiting Acknowledgement to editorial 423 collaborators 847