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largely explained by the extra costs of schooling for migrant households. Finally, we show that the parents of rural children … human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of schooling …
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While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...
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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 provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the...
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incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female …
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whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender …
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fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a … reduction in excess fertility, which is more pronounced among lower-educated women due to their lower likelihood of using …
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cluster average of women's exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives … policies towards men's understanding of family planning. …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew …- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating within the same centralized education system, we find that the gender … achievement-gap favoring girls in Arabic schools, the ethnic group characterized by less gender equality, is greater than the …
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students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …
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