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the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally …
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of discrete choice for labor supply, fertility and transition from … level wages led to lower fertility also contributing to the decline,because households with children are more likely to own …
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fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s beliefs about pregnancy risk absent contraception have the potential …
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fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
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fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend … fertility, family transfers, and education. The model, estimated to the US in the 2000s, implies that a counterfactual flat … income-fertility profile would-through the equalization of initial conditions-increase intergenerational mobility by 6%. The …
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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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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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We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...
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Birth registration is not only a fundamental human right, but also a requirement for obtaining additional documents, proving legal identity, and accessing a number of government benefits. Yet, little is known about the effects of birth under-registration on access to health care. Using data from...
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