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Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2019

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …

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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

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Maternal dengue and health outcomes of children

Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lívia - 2022

We study the effect of maternal dengue infections on birth outcomes using linked administrative records from Brazil estimating maternal fixed-effect specifications. In contrast to previous studies, we find robust evidence for the negative effect of dengue infections on birth weight (BW). The...

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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...

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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents' aspirations and child's academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...

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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449390

Genetic fortune : winning or losing education, income, and health

Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020 - Revision: November 2020

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries. We find that ≈10% of the variance in occupational wages...

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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper

Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

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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...

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