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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …
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fertility, i.e. later marriage. Education promotes consumerism and when there is a large gap between achievement in the economic …, there is one essential factor that affects family size throughout the world. This is education. School has decreased … mortality by the emphasis on personal and household hygiene. It has then decreased fertility by the increased costs of bringing …
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We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources were exploited; with...
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This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
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We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work...
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