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- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. … year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education …
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relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …
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is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …
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This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
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association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
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This paper investigates whether encouraging children to become more physically active in their everyday life affects their primary school performance. We use data from a field quasi-experiment called the Active Living Program, which aimed to increase active modes of transportation to school and...
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This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … in their middle-aged years. However, we find no evidence that the reform impacted mortality during working-age years. …
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Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
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Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline …
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