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We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …
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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
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evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …. A period of ethnic conflict following Kenya's 2007 election led to a sharp increase in discrimination. In response, the …
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In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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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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the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model … benefit system and analyze the long-run impact on fertility and female labor supply. Our simulations indicate three central …
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