Similar Search Results

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317431

Cultural Norms and Women's Health: Implications of the Practice of Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal

Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598965

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373264

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411420

Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate

Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between historically rooted norms that drive individuals to adhere to predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants, we identify an intergenerationally transmitted component...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455132

Social Identity and Depression Among the Elderly: Evidence from India

Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2024

The paper examines the prevalence of depression and clinical depression among the elderly in India across groups with distinct social identities, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. Using nationally representative data, the study reveals no- table...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632150

Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan’s (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912722

Can Child Marriage Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2022

In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for their own and their children's human capital. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child marriage - in a context in which the laws are not...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208392

Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018828

Fertility Transitions in Developing Countries: Convergence, Timing, and Causes

Papagni, Erasmo - 2018

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sul's (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902125

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last