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when opening to trade and foreign direct investment on employment, income distribution, and poverty. The first phase of the … liberalization focusing on employment, unemployment, wages, productivity, and work conditions that are related to trends in …
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We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
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The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a critical review of methods and results.
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This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …
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instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …
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(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …
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In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
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In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145514
health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West … Bengal, and find that it increased child survival and reduced fertility. However, we also find that it intensified son … preference in families without a first-born son to inherit the land title. These families exhibit no reduction in fertility, an …
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