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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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Economic foundations of contraceptive transitions : theories and a review of the evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500602
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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India
Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248826
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804260
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth : evidence from a Swedish IVF policy
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342131
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Where There is a Will : Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families
Jain, Tarun - 2013
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India, even when parents do not treat boys and girls differently. Tests using panel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012710694
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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321156
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275