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, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …
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limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we … and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …
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. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …
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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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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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