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This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...
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fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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their fertility choices in the context of son-preference in rural India. We use the NFHS-3 data and exploit the variation in … counterparts. We find evidence that the fertility increase was a result of women being able to use the stopping rule more … allowed women to increase fertility to realize her son preference …
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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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This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in … planning technologies, that likely contribute to the large changes in patterns of marriage and fertility observed in developed … nonmarital and teen fertility on adults' and children's outcomes remain, though recent evidence suggests more modest impacts than …
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the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …
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the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …
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particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity quality trade off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …
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of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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