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this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility …
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I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …
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, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …
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Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …
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Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the …
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increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …
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and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
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