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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

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Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016

occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data … 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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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...

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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

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Twin birth and maternal condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data … implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

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Estimating inter-generational returns to medical care : new evidence from at-risk newborns

Clarke, Damian; Lillo Bustos, Nicolás; Tapia Schythe, … - 2022

reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the …

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Analysis of twins

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2022

The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a critical review of methods and results.

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Women's careers and family formation

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022

research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …

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The demand for season of birth

Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016

We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...

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Abortion laws and women's health

Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on...

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