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Child quality and child quantity : evidence from Bolivian household surveys
Bredl, Sebastian - 2012
educational outcomes is found. -- education ; quality-quantity trade-off ; excess fertility ; Bolivia … empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data from Bolivian household surveys. Instead of focusing on actual fertility ….e. the adaptation of desired to actual fertility levels - is taken into account. The empirical findings are in line with the …
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Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure among native Amazonians in Bolivia
Zeng, Wu; Undurraga, Eduardo A.; Nyberg, Colleen; … - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 391-400
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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Family culture and fertility outcomes - evidence from American siblings
Eschelbach, Martina - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 3, pp. 246-267
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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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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": for whom? : evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2013
We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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Old-age support and demographic transition in developing countries : a cultural transmission model
Olivera, Javier - 2013
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …
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