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The effect of abortion policies on fertility and human capital in sub-Saharan Africa
Dimico, Arcangelo - 2024
I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand possible consequences from a reduced … international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces … fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a …
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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From Malthus to Modern Growth : Child Labor, Schooling and Human Capital
Vogel, Edgar - 2014
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070900
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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 641, pp. 1-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799234
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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891004
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls : New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
Anukriti, S - 2016
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981497
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Improvements in schooling opportunities and teen births
Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024
opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486349