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Planned Fertility and Family Background: A Quantile Regression for Counts Analysis
Miranda, Alfonso - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2005
This paper examines how fertility plans of young individuals who live in intact families (i.e., those where both … biological parents are present) differ from the fertility plans of young individuals who live in non-intact families in Mexico …. The paper also analyses whether family background has a relevant role in the formation of fertility plans. An innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636080
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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020
analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222196
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Uncertainty about children's survival and fertility: A test using indian microdata
Atella, Vincenzo; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 263-278
parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622387
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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …
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Spillovers from gender equality onto economic equality : evidence from 162 nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 35 (2023) 6, pp. 1365-1388
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336844
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Parental leave and the glass ceiling in Sweden
Albrecht, James W.; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter; Vroman, … - 2015
In this paper, we update and extend "Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?" (Albrecht et al. 2003) by documenting the extent to which the gender log wage gap across the distribution in Sweden has changed over the period 1998-2008. We then examine the Swedish glass ceiling in 2008 in more detail by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530525
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The quality-quantity trade-off : evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy
Liu, Haoming - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 2, pp. 565-602
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A new quantile treatment effect model for studying smoking effect on birth weight during Mother's pregnancy
Tang, Shengfang; Cai, Zongwu; Fang, Ying; Lin, Ming - In: Journal of management science and engineering 6 (2021) 3, pp. 336-343
This paper proposes a new quantile regression model to characterize the heterogeneity for distributional effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight across different the mother's age. By imposing a parametric restriction on the quantile functions of the potential outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206377
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Son preference and child under nutrition in the Arab Countries : is there a gender bias against girls?
Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy; Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Mansour, … - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 11 (2019) 2, pp. 199-219
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256092
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Son preference and child under nutrition in the Arab countries : is there a gender bias against girls?
Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy; Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Mansour, … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058920