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Education and Fertility : Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya
Chicoine, Luke - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099788
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education
Jacobs, Valentine - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and over-education, taking advantage of access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Covering more than 1.2 million workers, the data enable the authors to: i) measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860502
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The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander - 2018
children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923234
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants : The Role of English Language Skills
Aoki, Yu - 2015
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012015
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Weißhaar, Natalia - 2017
We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child out-comes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954998
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The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
Marchetta, Francesca - 2015
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young women in Senegal using a rich individual-level survey conducted in 2003. We use a multiple-equation framework that allows us to account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026858
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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Glick, Peter - 2015
– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029121
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908893
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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015
– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138483