The Implications of Experience and Expectations for Demographic Decisions: Germany, 1871-2000

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Jochen Streb
• Subject Area: Economic and Social History
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 275188639

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

This research project confirmed our assumption that qualitative and quantitative methods can be fruitfully combined. Our most striking result is that neither statistics nor ego-documents confirm the traditional view that the introduction of Bismarck’s social insurance system reduced fertility.

Publications

• “Does social security crowd out private savings? The case of Bismarck’s system of social insurance.” European Review of Economic History 2018, 22: 298-321
  Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle and Jochen Streb
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex022)
• „Kinderwunsch im Krieg: Kriegserfahrung und Fertilität in Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg.“ Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2018(2): 471-490
  Piro, Katerina
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2018-0016)