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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
IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first … comprehensive evaluation of SET, relevant given the secular rise in IVF births and growing concerns over twin birth risk. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804260
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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 … multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET) was mandated as the default IVF procedure. Using linked registry … births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor …
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
employee retention, staff engagement, job complementarities, coworkers, hospitals, endogeneityAThis paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415649
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Demography of global aging
Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528113
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Hiding the elephant : the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists
Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul - 2022
In 2020 and 2021, the world witnessed policies that caused enormous net damage to nearly every country. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new WELLBY currency in gauging the costs and benefits of COVID policies and review the contributions of Australian economists to the scholarly and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198930
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290644
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271478
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Do leaders' characteristics and regime transitions in Africa matter for citizens' health status?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016
Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that bring about improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580812
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Prescription drug monitoring programs and neonatal outcomes
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Zhang, Ning - 2019
Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138898
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Sterilization policy with incomplete information: Peru 1995-2000
Rendón, Sílvio - 2020
In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315404