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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
declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … into neighboring comparison villages. These program effects are robust to the inclusion of individual, household, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279322
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703190
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703422
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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822989
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764622
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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women’s Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Francavilla, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
society than specific labour and income support policies. Our household model in the collective framework predicts that an … exogenous improvement in household production technology due to demographic and health policies gives the wife the opportunity … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566791
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078566
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
Devereux, Paul; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703342
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from unemployment, household care and disability … to employment. Then we decompose the difference in expected duration between the immigrant groups and the Dutch into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703424
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The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach
Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model … entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find considerable duration dependence in region of residence in the raw data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822368