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Gene-environment effects on female fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649253
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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537794
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How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S : A Randomized Control Trial
Bailey, Martha J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner; Prettyman, Alexa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322784
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Family Planning, Now and Later : Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
Bau, Natalie; Henning, David J.; Low, Corinne; Millett … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …
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A note on contraception, social norms, and growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Kocharkov, Georgi; Santos, Cézar - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 27 (2023) 3, pp. 869-878
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247557
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266641
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House prices and birth rates: The impact of the real estate market on the decision to have a baby
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa S. - In: Journal of Public Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 82-100
fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are … normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in house prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility …% increase in fertility rates among owners and a 2.4% decrease among non-owners. At the mean U.S. home ownership rate, these …
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On the origins of risk-taking
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308063