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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans
Trako, Iva - 2019
This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059052
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Can mothers afford to work in Poland : labor supply incentives of social benefits and childcare costs
Bargu, Ali; Morgandi, Matteo - 2018
context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794756
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Changes in female employment in Mexico : demographics, economics, and policies
López Acevedo, Gladys; Freije, Samuel; Bahena, Mexico … - 2020
The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis, when female labor force participation increased. This paper aims to understand female labor force participation growth and identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257042
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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017
Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246337
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Gendered laws
Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2019
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168022
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Free primary education, fertility, and women’s access to the labor market : evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke E. - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228185
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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296897
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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - 2018
In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002256
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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities
Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019
A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121233
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Accounting for regional differences in mother and child health : Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand
Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2019
Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal, this paper reexamines the determinants of child wasting and maternal anemia. The findings bear out the importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008319