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Dragon Children: Identifying the Causal Effect of the First Child on Female Labor Supply with the Chinese Lunar Calendar

Vere, James P. - EconWPA - 2004

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify the causal effect of second and higher-parity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the Chinese lunar calendar to identify the effect of the...

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The Price, Cost, Consumption and Value of Children

Bradbury, Bruce - EconWPA - 2004

Though they are related, the price, cost, consumption and value of children are not the same. This paper explores two aspects of the relationship between these concepts. Even if we restrict attention to the domain of commodity consumption, the cost of children is not the same as children's...

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US....

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Fertility and Female Labor Supply in Latin America: New Causal Evidence

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

We study the effect of fertility on maternal labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. We find that the estimates for the US can be generalized both qualitatively and...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

particular, on the initiative of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) was established. This is a … on problems related to youth employment and unemployment. This paper aims to provide a contribution to debate on the …

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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …

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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from...

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