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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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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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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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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …
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This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health …
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of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging a nationally representative sample of older Americans from the Health and ….0-7.0% after further controlling for comprehensive socioeconomic and health factors over the life course, and are robust to the …, and early-life environments to promote health equity over the life course. …
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countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma …
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This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …
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