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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 evidence of convergence in three groups of countries. This...

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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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Remittances and Vaccine Hesitancy in the Punjab Province of Pakistan

Abbas, Faisal; Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha - 2023

elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of remittances on the likelihood a household vaccinate its children against polio … isolate the effect of receiving remittances using distance and exact matching. We find that access to remittances increases ….5 percentage points. Unfortunately, remittances do not significantly improve vaccinations of girls. The results imply that …

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Much ado about nothing? The wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lavadera, Giuseppe Lubrano; … - 2017

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...

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Overeducation at a glance. Determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...

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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...

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Is the future of work childless? Self-employment and fertility

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...

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The effect of self-employment on health: Instrumental variables analysis of longitudinal social security data

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2018

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the potential public policy implications. However, answering these questions is hampered by data and identification constraints. This is the first paper that draws on comprehensive...

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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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The varying impact of COVID-19 in the Spanish Labor Market

Cabanillas-Jiménez, Guillermo; Galanakis, Yannis - 2022

Historically, the Spanish labor market has been quite unstable. The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 has stressed these vulnerabilities. In this paper, we analyze the immediate impact of the pandemic on Spanish labor market outcomes. We find that, during the lockdown period, individuals...

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