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Between 2014 and 2017, Mexican states implemented minimum marriageable age laws that banned marriages for girls below 18. In this study, I exploit the temporal and geographical variation in law implementation to estimate the impact of these civil law reforms on child marriage rates, teenage...
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. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on … teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives … using biological fertility (miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate are not equally distributed …
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population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility …We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal …
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This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico. It exploits son preference as …
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beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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