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Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2010

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …

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Instrumental Variables Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects

Abadie, Alberto; Angrist, Joshua D.; Imbens, Guido W. - 2021

This paper introduces an instrumental variables estimator for the effect of a binary treatment on the quantiles of potential outcomes. The quantile treatment effects (QTE) estimator accommodates exogenous covariates and reduces to quantile regression as a special case when treatment status is...

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Teenage Childbearing and its Life Cycle Consequences : Exploiting a Natural Experiment

Hotz, V. Joseph; Sanders, Seth G.; McElroy, Susan Williams - 2021

In this paper, we exploit a 'natural experiment' associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we exploit the fact that a substantial...

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The Income Gradient in Children's Health : A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

Case, Anne - 2008

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results originally published by Case, Lubotsky and Paxson (2002) for the US, and by Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price (2007) for England. We find that, when the English sample is...

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...

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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition

Beach, Brian - 2019

The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …

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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility

Bloom, David E.; Conrad, Cecilia; Miller, Cynthia - 2021

subsequent fertility …

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The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortion, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases

Fischer, Stefanie - 2017

Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...

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