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Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and candidate instrumental variables are likely imperfect. We use...
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welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family …
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In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …
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-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal … the participating mothers until the third birthday of the child give a rich data source to evaluate these outcomes. I find …
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data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …
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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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