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potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078399
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions – namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961045
In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying the econometric methodology by Spady (2007). Compared to other measures of trust, using this...
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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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Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …
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The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a critical review of methods and results.
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