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reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the …
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We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …
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We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight even after accounting for all genetic and...
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outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …
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We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are … identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement. …
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This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the … in studies of human fertility both in the short run and in the long-run for the United States. In addition, our results …
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approximated by older families' income - on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging … positive effect of the female wage, among older more educated women. -- fertility, relative income ; relative cohort size …
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and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to … attendance generated positive effects on labor market outcomes and significant decreases in fertility; for men, we find no elite …
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on partners' earnings. Fertility of women is not affected and evidence for men is mixed, but we find evidence for … intergenerational effects on children's education. This means that field of study does not only affect individual labor market outcomes …
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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
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