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Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes

Machado, Matilde P.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 407-439

Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and … ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We … women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States …

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Migration, health knowledge and teenage fertility : evidence from Mexico

Battaglia, Marianna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 179-206

Migrationmay affect fertility and child health care of those remaining in the country of origin.Mexican data show that …

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The child penalty : evidence from Spain

Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...

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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women

Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268

Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...

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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …

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Contribution of demography to economic growth

Sánchez-Romero, Miguel; Abío, Gemma; Patxot, Concepció; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 1, pp. 27-64

From 1850 to 2000, in Western European countries life expectancy rose from 30–40 to 80 years and the average number of children per woman fell from 4 to 5 children to slightly more than one. To gauge the economic consequences of these demographic trends, we implement an overlapping generations...

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Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves

Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Carnero, M. Angeles; Farré, Lídia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 129-152

We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the residential mobility of immigrants and contributes to the ethnic residential segregation observed in large cities. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental...

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Immigration and student achievement in Spain : evidence from PISA

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Felgueroso, Florentino; Vázquez, Pablo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 25-60

This paper provides the first evidence on the dynamics of immigrant students' achievement following their migration to Spain. Using the data from 2003, 2006 and 2009 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that immigrant students tend to perform significantly...

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Should I stay or should I go? : the effect of London’s terrorist attack on the educational choices of Muslims

Astorga-Rojas, Diego - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 3/4, pp. 463-501

This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and decisions. The attacks triggered a violent backslash against the Muslim community, which could have affected their incentives to continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on...

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Family labor participation and child care decisions : the role of grannies

Zamarro, Gema - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 3, pp. 287-312

Grandparents, and in particular grandmothers, are an important source of informal child care for their grandchildren in most developed countries. The literature shows how these informal transfers of care can help promote female labor participation. However, less is known about how working-age...

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