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declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...
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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...
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We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
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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 analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997 …
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This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's labour market experiences during the current recession and then seeks to provide some explanations of...
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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