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The Inter-generational Fertility Effect of an Abortion Ban: Understanding the Role of Inherited Wealth and Preferences
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the demand for children over their life cycle. The empirical approach combines elements …-generation individuals whose mothers were affected by the ban had a significantly lower demand for children. One-third of such decline is …
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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 … parents’ jobs and can play a role in reducing inequality. …
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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...
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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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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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Fertility and Population Policy
Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Yang, Jingjing - 2018
as the number of children per woman, is used as the main fertility trend variable. We use panel data from the United …
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The Unintended Consequences of Relaxing Birth Quotas: Theory and Evidence
Jin, Zhangfeng; Pan, Shiyuan; Zheng, Zhijie - 2021
This study examines the consequences of relaxing birth quotas by exploiting an exogenous two-child policy adopted by local Chinese governments on different dates. Using China's 2015 population census combined with a difference-in-differences framework, we find that the adoption of a two-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...
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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...
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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