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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017
Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization …
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Can mothers afford to work in Poland : labor supply incentives of social benefits and childcare costs
Bargu, Ali; Morgandi, Matteo - 2018
context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794756
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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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Addressing Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niger
Barroy, Helene - 2016
The aim of the study is to better understand adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs in order to inform the design of interventions and policies that improve access to and use of adolescent SRH services in Niger. A mixed-methods study was conducted and included: (i) a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644733
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Fertility Transition in Turkey-Who is Most at Risk of Deciding against Child Arrival?
Greulich, Angela - 2015
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Going Beyond the First Child : Analysis of Russian Mothers' Desired and Actual Fertility Patterns
Levin, Victoria - 2016
. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246248
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Are Women Less Productive Farmers? : How Markets and Risk Affect Fertilizer Use, Productivity, and Measured Gender Effects in Uganda
Larson, Donald F. - 2015
African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing...
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"Missing Girls" in the South Caucasus Countries : Trends, Possible Causes, and Policy Options
Gupta, Monica Das - 2015
Sex ratios at birth rose sharply in the South Caucasus countries after 1991, but recent data indicate that this trend is turning. What caused this rise, and what can be done to accelerate its normalization? Traditional kinship systems in the region are similar to those of other settings with...
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Sex-Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing
Pörtner, Claus C - 2015
Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …
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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - 2018
In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
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