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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma - 2007
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455795
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458283
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Why do people stay poor?
Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …
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The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2015
The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...
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Value Chain Microfinance
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access - including asymmetric information,...
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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2004
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Miller, Grant - 2016
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that...
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Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing : A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh
Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H.; Styczynski, Ashley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …
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