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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179747
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Is there Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858670
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2014
necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333372
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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with …This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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The Long-Term Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Maternal Health and Subjective Well-Being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …
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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England
Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2016
We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...
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Family Planning and Climate Change
Gerlagh, Reyer; Lupi, Veronica; Galeotti, Marzio - 2018
The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate-economic studies, which mostly neglect the environmental...
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Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England
Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2012
We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...
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