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Syse, Astri; Dommermuth, Lars; Hart, Rannveig K. - 2020

participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied as a fertility … determinant. We explore the association between health and fertility, using uptake of doctor-certified sickness absences and long …/or changes in the health-fertility association have contributed to the distinct fall in the total fertility rate in Norway since …

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Mother's employment and fertility in Norway

Gerster, Mette; Lappegård, Trude - 2010

This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the employment processes we employ a simultaneous equations approach for hazard models,...

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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019

Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...

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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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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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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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The global income gap to a healthy diet

Stehl, Jonas; Depenbusch, Lutz; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2023

Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human right, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional...

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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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Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women's transitions from part-time to full-time work?

Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane - 2011

Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...

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