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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Ten Facts about Son Preference in India
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at …
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The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso
Dupas, Pascaline; Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
limited access to contraception is an important driver of high fertility rates in West Africa. We do not find support for this … about family size and contraception, and social pressure. Free contraception did not influence fertility even in combination …
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Family Planning, Now and Later : Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
Bau, Natalie; Henning, David J.; Low, Corinne; Millett … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …
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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment
Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...
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Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …
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