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-of-wedlock fertility that appear to have led to increased schooling and employment rates. Instrumental variables estimates of the effects … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …
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A strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …
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estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity … inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use exogenous variations in fertility due to twin births to measure the impact of …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
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, and that previous employment tends to raise the probability of subsequent employment …
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states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …
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This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process …
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