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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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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 … the abortion rate of approximately 5% the year the first law is implemented, and an average reduction of 11-14% in …
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legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the …
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This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative birth record dataset in China. During the sample period...
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Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...
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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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sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …
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This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …
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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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This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second … 1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the demand for children over their life cycle. The empirical approach combines elements …
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