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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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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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