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There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
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Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
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- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility. …
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estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as … women past college-entry age, to document significant negative effects on the fertility of women as old as 30 at the onset … of the expansion. We also show that the expansion lowered the fertility of women both with and without tertiary education …
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school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …
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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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fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
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children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …
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