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The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of quot;missing girlsquot; in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked...
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that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …
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, and good match between individuals. They then examine fertility decisions made in Vietnam between 1976 and 1996. The … years moreover do better both in health and education. While parental characteristics seem to affect fertility choices and …
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Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment compared with the reference population as per the World Health Organization standards....
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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...
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and soil fertility as proxy for below-ground environmental quality. Rainfall is used to account for endogeneity issues in …
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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 …
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This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with … impact of the reform on fertility outcomes. The impact appears to be large. The study estimates that women in rural areas …
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This paper estimates the impacts of secondary school on human capital, occupational choice, and fertility for young …
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In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper … finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the …
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