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exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced … Chinese fertility and we examine how the OCP has affected the educational attainment of Chinese migrants to the U.S.Using data …
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after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …
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We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010 2020), we compare the …
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …
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This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …
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We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level as a consequence of legal and judicial decisions in the late 2000s. We find...
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This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …
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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages …
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