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Children and female employment in Mongolia

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022

Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021

The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if the flow of immigrants as actually affected fertility … child-care services by immigrants has positively affected native fertility choice. …

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And thou shalt honor : children's caregiving, work and religion

Mazzotta, Fernanda; Bettio, Francesca; Zigante, Valentina - 2018 - draft, March 2018

In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...

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Girls not brides : evolution of child marriage in Pakistan

Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2020

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...

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The fertility effect of laws granting undocumented migrants access to driving licenses in the United States

Gunadi, Christian - 2022

licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …

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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 … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …

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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes

Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018

We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...

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More goals, fewer babies? : on national teams' performance and birth rates

Fumarco, Luca; Principe, Francesco - 2021

Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams'...

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Perturbed nuptiality, delayed fertility : childbirth effects of Covid19

Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad 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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