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This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important...
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...
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-in-difference-in-differences framework. With a longitudinal survey that tracks individuals for an average of 22 years, a panel of mothers was constructed to … estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per … 1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent from the …
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The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search … search, but smaller effects on employment and earnings. Giving assessment results only to firms increases callbacks. These …
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