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This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist financial incentives on babies. I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers provided to families with newborn babies and the universe of birth, death, and migrant registry records in South Korea. I...
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The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …
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participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women’s fertility and … discontinuities following childbirth. Using new longitudinal datasets that cover the work and family life of women in the Federal … that in both parts of Germany women’s probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …
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(partnerships, marriages, and childbearing) of modern Russian women. The quantitative research conducted on 2,229 individual … biographies of women between 19 and 43 implies the use of descriptive analysis and Event History Analysis (Cox regression) within … characterized as mostly immobile (more than two thirds of women never experienced migration, at least before age 43). The paper …
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case if China had not implemented the policy. The methodology we introduced in estimating the number of “missing women … of approximately 11 million missing women in China, and contributed to more than 50% of its outstanding gender imbalance …
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I model the strategic interaction between scientists aiming for promotion and a research institution that seeks a highly productive faculty by setting a maternity allowance in the form of a minimum promotion standard. The model shows that maternity allowances need not derive from moral justice...
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Although family planning programs can improve women’s welfare directly through changes in realized fertility, they may … also find that these early investments are linked to gains in women’s paid labor at prime working ages and to greater … support for women’s elderly parents (a marker for women’s bargaining power within the household). Notably, these incentive …
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-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …
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) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced …
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Although it is well established that women’s labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing …, surprisingly little is known about women’s labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the … Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years …
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