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development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive …- ousness should accentuate this fertility effect. The net fertility impact of the Covid-19 outbreak would ultimately depend not …
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can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from … effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in …. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …
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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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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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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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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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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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sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …
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