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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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We test whether the availability of the emergency contraceptive (“morning after”) pill in the absence of legalised abortion can have effects similar to those of other large-scale contraceptive reforms. To do so we examine a quasi-experimental policy reform occurring in Chile in 2008. Using...
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. These mental health effects counteract the fertility control effect of the pill on labor market outcomes and are associated … with limitations at work and more disability periods. The analysis also shows that the fertility control effect of the pill …
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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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In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...
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We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...
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affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …
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I study how bias in agricultural technological change affects labor market opportunities and fertility in a modern … of female labor into other sectors. Further, this technology adoption increased fertility, due to increases in overall … market opportunities or contribute to fertility decline, unless substitution effects are negative and sufficiently large …
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