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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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Immigrant fertility in the midst of intensified enforcement
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants' fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 … an intensified fear of deportation, on likely unauthorized women's fertility. Given immigrants' critical contribution to …
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Men's premarital migration and marriage payments : evidence from Indonesia
Champeaux, Hugues; Gautrain, Elsa; Marazyan, Karine - 2024
Bride price customs are widespread in many developing countries. While the economic literature has widely investigated the implications of such transfers on women's welfare, little is known about their consequences on men's premarital behavior. In this paper, we exploit a quasi-natural...
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Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey
Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition,...
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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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Fertility, Heterogeneity and the Golden Rule
Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022
Phelpsís (1961) Golden Rule states an unambiguous relationship between optimal capital intensity and fertility: a rise … in fertility decreases the optimal capital intensity, because a higher fertility increases the investment required to … having distinct fertility behaviors. We derive the optimal accumulation rule in that framework, and we show that, unlike what …
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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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