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Power to choose? : examining the link between contraceptive use and domestic violence
Ojha, Manini; Babbar, Karan - 2023
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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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020
Myers, Caitlin K. - 2022
An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166792
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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law
Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023
of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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Fertility transitions in developing countries : convergence, timing, and causes
Papagni, Erasmo - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130580
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Cultural norms and women's health : implications of the practice of menstrual restrictions in Nepal
Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021
We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414165
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The impact of targeted regulation of abortion providers laws on abortions and births
Arnold, Grace E. - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254226
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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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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392711
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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
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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