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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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enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 … an intensified fear of deportation, on likely unauthorized women’s fertility. Given immigrants’ critical contribution to …
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licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …
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past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women’s fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the...
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male births once low fertility levels and access to ultrasound technology are given. We test our hypotheses in the context …
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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...
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colonialism on several drivers of women empowerment including education, fertility, marital age, gender norms, etc. While our …This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women …
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In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of the effect of uncertainty on fertility. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We use a new …. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty shocks decrease the fertility rate. This evidence is robust to different …
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