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children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …
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I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
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A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …
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This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …
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We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …
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This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …
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household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of …
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obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …
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planning aid to countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is higher than aid to non-SSA countries, and that high fertility rate …
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