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delayed memory score by about 0.3, which amounts to 16% of the standard deviation. Furthermore, for women, we find that more …
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level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability …
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We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically … significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven mainly by women at the middle and upper end of the earnings …In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby …
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This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …
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We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …
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This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the … transitioning countries from those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by …
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