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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … had little effect on the probabilities of entering into marriage and parenthood at a young age. In contrast, both the …
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The Economics of Grief
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health...
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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first …
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W.; Emerson, Patrick M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042618
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Cochrane, Tom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
Zhao, Zhong; Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
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Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case
Adsera, Alicia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Family size is the outcome of sequential decisions influenced both by preferences and by ongoing changes in the environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the number of children women prefer and their actual fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the...
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