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Women's Education, Marriage, and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Thailand's Compulsory Schooling Law
Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023
of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women …
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Perturbed Nuptiality, Delayed Fertility: Childbirth Effects of Covid19
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Rashid - 2021
An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct … lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till … Pakistan where birth rates remain high, marriage is nearly universal, and almost all child- bearing takes place within marriage …
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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2019
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...
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Will You Marry Me ... if Our Children Are Healthy? The Impact of Maternal Age and the Associated Risk of Having a Child with Health Problems on Family Structure
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019
Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...
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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
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Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Neyt, Brecht; Baert, Stijn; Vynckier, Jana - 2019
Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine whether these human partner preferences survive in a...
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Climate Shocks and Teenage Fertility
Dessy, Sylvain; Marchetta, Francesca; Pongou, Roland; … - 2020
. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …
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Health Economics of Genetic Distance
Jelnov, Pavel - 2020
In this note, I address the trade-off between children’s health and parental preference toward similarity with children. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children’s health problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a...
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Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of con icting family goals within a couple, and...
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Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey
Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …
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