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education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i … attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the … inputs are important in shaping these skills, these results align with the notion that education may make women more …
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
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This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico. It exploits son preference as … instrumental variables. Overall, it finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education, once the endogeneity of …
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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … single period game in that informal aid is set according to an efficient rule. However, education is distorted upwards. In …
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Chinese fertility and we examine how the OCP has affected the educational attainment of Chinese migrants to the U.S. Using … quality-quantity tradeoff theory. We find that education increased more for Chinese migrants born after the OCP than their …
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