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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia

Chicoine, Luke - 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 …

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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Do, Quy-Toan - 2017

fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and … fertility. This is because female wages and therefore the opportunity cost of children are higher in those countries. The paper … demonstrates empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility …

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Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis

Verme, Paolo - 2017

transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …

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Can Mothers Afford to Work in Poland : Labor Supply Incentives of Social Benefits and Childcare Costs

Bargu, Ali - 2018

context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …

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Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2021

Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...

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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...

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Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment...

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Hit and Run? Income Shocks and School Dropouts in Latin America

Cerutti, Paula Maria - 2019

How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The...

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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Lakner, Christoph - 2017

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

Wydick, Bruce - 2017

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship...

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