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This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...
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headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …
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whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing fertility has on the labor market outcomes for mothers and on the total … force participation and wages but may have negative effects on overall fertility, especially in the absence of supportive …
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after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …
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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
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lengthening in spacing, the standard fertility rates substantially overestimated how fast cohort fertility fell. Despite a … convergence, cohort fertility is still 10%–20% higher than the fertility rate and above replacement level for all but the best …
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The impact of family planning programs on fertility in developing countries is contested, with empirical evidence … finding negative effects on completed fertility but no consistent effect on short-run fertility. Using a lifecycle model of … fertility control choice, we theoretically and empirically show that differential responses of short-run and completed fertility …
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