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application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …
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Public programs often use statistical profiling to assess the risk that applicants will become long-term dependent on the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or...
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fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …
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This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...
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I study how retirement delays in one generation affect fertility in the subsequent generation. I use administrative … delay retirement while exempting those born earlier. I find that this reduced fertility among women with reform … argue that the fertility reduction is driven by reduced grandparental child care supply. My results suggest that delaying …
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The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for …-reform pensions and differences in exposure across cohorts, we show that pensions substantially reduce fertility, especially in late … suggest that improving social protection for the elderly could go a long way in fostering fertility decline in Sub …
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reason why certain women did not alter their fertility decisions during this time of economic uncertainty. We also show that …
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This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...
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To achieve sustainable economic growth in the transition countries,it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved. However, it isnot clear which factors are essential for this. On the basis of theempirical literature on potential determinants of enterpriseperformance in Russia, surveyed...
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