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fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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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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implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …
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Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …
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health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than …
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fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
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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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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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