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The Illusion of Stable Preferences over Major Life Decisions
Mueller, Maximilian W. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479793
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2014
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457882
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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2008
To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464172
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Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming : Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Walker, Michael W.; Huang, Alice H.; Asman, Suleiman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients … of improved health, education and living standards, increased urban residence, delayed fertility, and greater use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250179
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Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth
Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172190
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Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children’s Educational Outcomes
Ginther, Donna K. - 2019
We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480186
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2020
migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481070
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Ş. Pelin - 2020
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482431
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462926
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Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility
Conley, Dalton - 2005
The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process has been one of the most robust effects in human capital and stratification research over the last few decades. For example, Featherman and Hauser (1978: 242-243) estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467382