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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility …
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This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570798
the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
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differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …
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Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the …
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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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