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This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …
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This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in …
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considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …
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Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …
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educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …
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for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …
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In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …
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