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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008

Kaldager, Rannveig V. - 2014

that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …

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Gender inequality as a barrier to economic growth: A review of the theoretical literature

Klasen, Stephan; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2018

economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

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Effects of policy on fertility: A systematic review of (quasi)experiments

Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; Hart, Rannveig K. - 2020

This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the literature of policy effects on fertility after 1970 in … child transfers and welfare reforms. Childcare and universal transfers seem to have the most positive effects on fertility … (quasi)experimental evaluation. Withdrawing cash transfers to families through welfare reforms has limited fertility effects …

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Child-specific son preference, birth order and cognitive skills in early childhood

Ebert, Cara Luisa; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019

We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...

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Mothers' status, food price shock and child nutrition in Karnataka

Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

Women's empowerment is increasingly put forth as a mean to promote child development. However, little empirical research has evaluated the pathways of women empowerment leading to it. This paper uses a household survey conducted in Karnataka, South India to explore the impact of female status on...

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Encouraging parents to invest: A randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...

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Integrating Equality - Globalization, Women's Rights, Son Preference and Human Trafficking

Cho, Seo-Young - 2011

Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women's rights in the economic and social dimensions. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981-2008 period, we find that social globalization positively affects both women's...

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Household affiliation of young adults in Italy and Norway. The significance of gender, sociocultural background, work and money

Addabbo, Tindara; Kjeldstad, Randi - 2013

Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households. This paper asks why, and how these differences...

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Why are there so few female entrepreneurs? An examination of gender differences in entrepreneurship using Norwegian registry data

Raknerud, Arvid; Rønsen, Marit - 2014

Women make up almost 50 percent of the employed population in Norway, but only about 25 percent of the entrepreneurs. Using registry data on the whole population we address gender differences in the propensity to become an entrepreneur. We do so by analysing transition from ordinary wage...

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Union dissolution and childlessness. New insights from sequence analysis

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - 2015

. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up to age 45, I include …

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