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This paper etimates the causal effects of family size on girls’ education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference as a source of random variation in the propensity to have more children within an instrumental variables framework. It finds no evidence of family size having an adverse...
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This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …
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Evaluating the impact of poverty-reduction programs on fertility is complicated given that changes in incentives to … the use of birth spacing as a short-run indicator of the impact of poverty-reduction programs on fertility. The data come …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality between female labor supply and fertility in the presence of … female labor supply and fertility and suggest interesting causal chains among the system variables. Causality effects are …
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causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … children we also find a marginally significant negative income effect on fertility. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013 …
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This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization assuming that cultural/social/religious norms (in particular the ‘religious taste for children’) are transmitted from one generation to the next via two venues: (i) direct socialization—across generations, by parents; and (ii)...
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This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare provision are … paper presents a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices driven by cultural attitudes …
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We build an overlapping-generations model that incorporates endogenous fertility choices, in addition to public and … transition; that is, the fertility decline along the process of economic growth. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013 …
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choice of zero fertility has not interested economists. Permanent childlessness, in developed countries, can concern up to 30 … % of the women in a cohort. Childlessness rates can be positively related to average fertility for some cohorts of women …. This paper provides an explanation for this using an endogenous fertility model where individuals have different …
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