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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
recipients are indeed recent migrants, refugees, and women. By using different matching algorithms, this group was made as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012808068
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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment: Evidence from School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205705
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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2022
An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166098
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The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Abortions and Births
Arnold, Grace E. - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192116
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Fertility and Population Policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we … examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined … as the number of children per woman, is used as the main fertility trend variable. We use panel data from the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780699
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The Unintended Consequences of Relaxing Birth Quotas: Theory and Evidence
Jin, Zhangfeng; Pan, Shiyuan; Zheng, Zhijie - 2021
of the policy is more pronounced among couples who have higher fertility preferences and who are less sensitive to child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500138
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Does Paid Family Leave Save Infant Lives? Evidence from United States
Chen, Feng - 2021
One goal of the paid family leave (PFL) is to help working mothers balance their careers and family responsibilities and hence improve the well-being of their infants. However, most studies of PFL on early childhood outcomes have been based on the analyses of surviving infants. If PFL reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550149
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The ugly truth about social welfare payments and households' subjective well-being
Adhikari, Tamanna; Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie - 2021
Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585220
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where each person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590199
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Climate Shocks and Teenage Fertility
Dessy, Sylvain; Marchetta, Francesca; Pongou, Roland; … - 2020
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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