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negative residual effect of women’s education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women’s education on fertility is causal. …While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as …
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evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … model to shed light on differences between the U.S. and Western Europe in fertility and women's time allocated to labor …Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …
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determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …
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We develop a simple semiparametric framework for combining censored and uncensored samples so that the resulting estimators are consistent, asymptotically normal, and use all information optimally. No nonparametric smoothing is required to implement our estimators. To illustrate our results in...
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lower than OLS. In fact, there is no evidence of any positive return for women and the return for men is in the 4-7% range …
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This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...
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This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries (France, Germany and the Netherlands). Industry-specific demand-side instruments are used to examine the prevalence of non-constant returns to scale and unmeasured input...
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We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city’s stock of roads causes about a 2% increase in its population and employment and a small decrease in its share of poor households over...
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