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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …

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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply : Analysis of Ivf Reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2019

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...

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Twin Birth and Maternal Condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912230

Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …

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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments

Anukriti, S - 2016

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Akresh, Richard - 2011

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...

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When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2021

This paper suggests an analytical framework to analyse the joint evolution of female participation and wages across countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE, female participation has reduced relatively more...

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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016

Bengal, and find that it increased child survival and reduced fertility. However, we also find that it intensified son … preference in families without a first-born son to inherit the land title. These families exhibit no reduction in fertility, an …

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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target …

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