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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283095
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608
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Schooling, marriage and age of first birth in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015
- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472518
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Education, health and fertility of UK immigrants : the role of English language skills
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2015
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387165
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The fertility effects of school entry decisions
Fehn, Rebecca; Tamm, Marcus - 2021
School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who enter school one year before the official entry date....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705688
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"Bachelors" and babies: the effect of tertiary education expansion on fertility
Bharati, Tushar; Chang, Simon; Li, Qing - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607750
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School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes
Fredriksson, Peter; Huttunen, Kristiina; Öckert, Björn - 2021
school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419210
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664516
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542