Showing 1 - 10 of 3,554
often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence …Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These … affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698101
underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494007
administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337122
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484491
mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596254
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648237
explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977441
This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287021
We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these gender stereotypes in recruiters’ minds varies by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187873