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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages …
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The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital systems have actively participated in this. As of 2016, 40% of the largest healthcare systems were faith-based, with 141 mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997....
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Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of private providers and free public providers. We test whether income-based disparities in medical visits and medications remain in Brazil despite universal coverage using a...
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experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …
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Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact based on a staple life-cycle model of human capital investment and timing of first birth. The model yields conditions (that are plausibly satisfied) under which late childbearers...
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Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …
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on a small scale, could alter incentives surrounding fertility. Using synthetic control and difference …-in-differences models to account for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity, we model the effect of income on fertility by … increased fertility and reduced the spacing between births, particularly for females in the 20-44 year age group. Our results …
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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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We examine the stability of preferences over time using panel data from Kenya on fertility intentions, realizations …, and recall of intentions. We find that desired fertility is very unstable, but that most people perceive their desires to … be stable. Under hypothetical scenarios, few expect their desired fertility to increase over time. Moreover, when asked …
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We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …
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