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productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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approximated by older families' income – on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging …
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and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
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Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …
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Hispanic origin, altered their fertility decisions in response to the legislation. In addition, they increased their labor …
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …
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fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate …
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