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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. …
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households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …
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's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … are considered: (1) greater congestion in public schools; (2) a lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced … wages for low-skilled workers and so more dependence by low-skilled locals on public education; (4) a greater skill premium …
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and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
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, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …
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and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and first-birth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …
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affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever … document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to …
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relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …
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gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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