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unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …
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terms of its effect on infant mortality. We exploit that the program affects child mortality only via bed net usage. We find … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of … the total reduction in infant mortality over the study period …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as … predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are …
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-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …
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Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …
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This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …
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