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Male Attitude and Family Planning Practices in Angola
Toulová, Natálie ; Chytilová, Julie (advisor) ; Šedivý, Marek (referee)
Natálie Toulová Abstract Men's involvement in their partners' lives can be an essential driver in terms of the utilization of family planning programs. Using cross-sectional data from the Angola Demographic and Health Survey from 2015-2016, this thesis investigates the factors influencing family planning use from the men's point of view. Apart from the expected positive correlation of education, age, place of residence, and economic status with contraceptive use, it is hypothesized that men's attitude, knowledge, and fertility preferences affect contraceptive use and unmet need of their spouses. Using logistic and probit regressions, the results of this thesis point out a significant positive relationship between men's knowledge of contraception, their fertile preferences, and their partners' use of contraception. Lastly, the thesis lays down a few suggestions for future research. .
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The Effect of Family Size on Men and Women Wellbeing
Havrilová, Andrea ; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara (advisor) ; Votápková, Jana (referee)
This paper uses data from The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) for year 2013 to estimate the effect of family size on parent's wellbeing. To address the possible endogeneity in family size we use "multiple births" as exogenous origin of variation in family size. First finding shows insignificant effect of the additional child on parent's wellbeing. However, when we examine if the effect of number of children is significantly different for men and for women, we receive significant results. The number of children positively influences mother's wellbeing, but for fathers, there do not exist clear result. Finally, we examine if big family is poor family and our finding reveals, that number of children positively increases income of household. JEL Classification D31, I31, J13 Keywords wellbeing, family size, instrumental variable, income Author's e-mail andrea.havrilova@gmail.com Supervisor's e-mail gebicka@fsv.cuni.cz
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Decision about family size
Melcerová, Eva ; Mlčoch, Lubomír (advisor) ; Votápková, Jana (referee)
The aging population of the Czech Republic is a very acute problem. While the increase in life expectancy and the related need for reform of overshadow. In the theoretical part of my bachelor theses I am concerned with issues that affect fertility. More specifically, I focus on the perceived size of the family and its changes over time, the cost of children, parenthood postponement to a later age, and especially the combination of work and family. I also concern with the functions of family policy of the Czech Republic and major social benefits for families with children. In the practical part I define my own model with aspects affecting fertility and trying to point out the unfriendly family policy of the Czech Republic, which focuses more on families with some problems or specifics than on standard families. My model builds on the already well-known model of Gary Becker and enriches him on other important variables. Furthermore, I analyze the tax benefits for families with children, and especially already canceled joint taxation of married couples. Here by simple calculations I point to the fact that although it was canceled because of meaningless after uniform income tax for some of the families could make sense it even at the present level of income tax. Finally, a simple model shows the option...
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Planned versus realized fertility - a questionnaire survey of realized fertility of a small sample of women in Czech republic
Klementová, Lenka ; Miskolczi, Martina (advisor) ; Langhamrová, Jitka (referee)
The objective of the thesis is to compare planned and realized fertility of a small sample of Czech women with finished fertility. A questionnaire was used to determine both planned and actual number of children, their gender, birth order and spacing and the age of woman at her first birth and her marital status. The realization of these events was compared and the reasons for failure were identified. A sample of 47 respondents anonymously completed the two-page questionnaire comprising of four parts -- plan, reality, personal characteristics and additional questions. Additional questions were related to contraception, abortions, religion, etc. The survey showed average number of 2.34 child per woman, whereas planned average number was 2.28. Further, on average 53 % of women fulfilled their plans regarding number of children, gender and order, spacing, age at the first birth and age at the first marriage. Finally, the correlation between observed number of children and planned number of children was analysed based on gathered data. The resulting model showed that the planned number of children one corresponds with realized number of children 1.47.
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