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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021898
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor …
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explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using aswitching regression analysis, which enables us to …
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involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
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teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize … that increasing access to high-speed internet can influence fertility decisions by changing the size of the market as well … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased …
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We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …
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Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
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