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More Goals, Fewer Babies? On National Teams' Performance and Birth Rates
Fumarco, Luca; Principe, Francesco - 2021
rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …
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Family planning and women's and children's health: Long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions
Guldi, Melanie; Herbst, Chris M. - 2015
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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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
Barreca, Alan I.; Deschenes, Olivier; Guldi, Melanie - 2015
not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …
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The role of preferences and opportunity costs in determining the time allocated to housework
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market will devote more time to home production. In reality,...
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Retirement and home production: A regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - 2011
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
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What effects do macroeconomic conditions have on families' time together?
Morill, Melinda Sandler; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2012
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is U-shaped; while fathers spend more time engaging in enriching childcare activities without a spouse...
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Aggregate impacts of a gift of time
Lee, Jungmin; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...
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