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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295
Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556238
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Education and fertility: an investigation on Italian families
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644756
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Education and Fertility: A comparative Micro-econometric Analysis in Europe
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 10 (2013) 1, pp. 109-120
In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … Community Household Panel (ECHP) dataset. In order to handle the endogeneity issue in fertility decisions, we use the Linear … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643616
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Education and Second Birth Risks in Italy
ALDIERI, Luigi; BARONE, Adriana; VINCI, Concetto Paolo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2010) 4, pp. 417-432
This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using the Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI). By implementing a simple event-history model, we find a negative effect of women’s education on the transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571197
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Human capital and fertility decisions in Italy: a microeconometric analysis of ECHP data
Aldieri, Luigi; Barone, Adriana; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - In: Brussels Economic Review 49 (2006) 4, pp. 281-292
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008573716
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An investigation of the relation between the number of children and education in Italy
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent (and to his partner). Since the number of … children ever born (CEB) is a count variable, we have implemented three empirical models: Poisson, Zero-Truncated Poisson and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833301
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Education and Second Birth Risks in Italy
ALDIERI, Luigi; BARONE, Adriana; VINCI, Concetto Paolo - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 118 (2010) 4, pp. 417-432
This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using the Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI). By implementing a simple event-history model, we find a negative effect of women’s education on the transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786962
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The Causal Effects of Father Absence
McLanahan, Sara; Schneider, Daniel - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
outcomes such as high school graduation, children’s social emotional adjustment and adult mental health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720699
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Is there a cost associated with an increase in family size beyond child investment? Evidence from developing countries
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio - Banco de España - 2011
evidence that a shock in fertility has a cost for a family as a whole. Mothers are more likely to live under less stable family … arrangements and they are more likely to use contraceptives. Children are less likely to receive some vaccines, attend school, live … fertility comes from those countries with lower level of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320597
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kýrdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayýoglu; Koç, Ýsmet - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2010
and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753450