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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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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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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 … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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Perturbed Nuptiality, Delayed Fertility: Childbirth Effects of Covid19
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Rashid - 2021
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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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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Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
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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Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use and domestic violence
Ojha, Manini; Babbar, Karan - 2023
Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to use contraception and the occurrence of intimate...
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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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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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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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