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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans

Trako, Iva - 2019

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

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Complex decisions between care and paid work : a qualitative study on the demand for childcare services in Mexico City

Muller, Miriam; Jaen, Martha - 2020

This study aims to improve the understanding of the barriers and enabling factors determining the demand for childcare in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers (married or living in a union) of children ages zero to...

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Labor supply and retirement policy in an overlapping generations model with stochastic fertility

Jorgensen, Ole Hagen; Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik - 2010

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Reform and backlash to reform : economic effects of ageing and retirement policy

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2010

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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's"missing girls" phenomenon?

Das Gupta, Monica; Chung, Woojin; Li, Shuzhuo - 2009

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the...