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Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates …

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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …

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(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply

Rondinelli, Concetta; Zizza, Roberta - 2011

The negative association between fertility and female labour supply is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. We … nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female …

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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK

Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage gap increases over the life cycle, especially between...

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Bad economy, good teachers? : the countercyclicality of enrolment Into Initial Teacher Training Programmes in the UK

Fullard, Joshua - 2021

Using data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE), we take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in the unemployment rate, by field of study, at time of graduation to investigate the impact of labour market condition on teacher supply, measured by enrolment onto an...

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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain

Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...

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Peer groups, social support, and well-being : evidence from a large online maternity community

Jiang, Lingqing; Zhu, Zhen - 2021

Increasing attention is being paid to social determinants of health. We study how quasi-randomly assigned peer groups affect social support among over 24,000 pregnant women, and how social support in these peer groups relates to mothers' well-being both during and after pregnancy as well as...

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Does postpartum depression affect employment?

Komodromou, Maria Elena - 2018

This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical...

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Does postpartum depression predict emotional and cognitive difficulties in 11 year olds?

Komodromou, Maria Elena - 2017

This paper examines the role of postpartum depression (PPD) on the emotional and cognitive development of 11-year olds, a key stage of transition in child development before entering adolescence. The present study uses data from the MCS, a longitudinal cohort study with a large and...

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