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Age at first child : does education delay fertility timing? ; the case of Kenya
Ferré, Céline - 2009
mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820997
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Age at first child : does education delay fertility timing? the case of Kenya
Ferre, Celine - 2009
mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394127
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Age at First Child Does Education Delay Fertility Timing? The Case of Kenya
Ferre, Celine - 2012
mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551761
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513403
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The impact of female education on teenage fertility : evidence from Turkey
Güneş, Pınar Mine - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 259-288
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430730
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Liu, Haoming - 2015
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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Education and labor market activity of women : an age-group specific empirical analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379383
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An empirical investigation of peer effects on fertility preferences
Mishra, Ankita; Parasnis, Jaai - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345236
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608