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interaction between SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 3 (good health and well-being) and SDG 4 (quality education). It then applies the …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …
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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 evidence of convergence in three groups of countries....
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women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to …Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against … cluster average of women's exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives …
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We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women …
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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal...
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in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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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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In this note, I address the trade-off between children's health and parental preference toward similarity with children …. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children's health … problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a result, the relationship between parental wealth and children's health includes …
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