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waiting periods for abortions, distinguishing between "one- trip" waiting periods that allow counseling and information to be …-trip waiting periods do not have substantial effects on abortions or births. Two-trip waiting periods are estimated to reduce … abortions and delay those that still occur, increasing second trimester abortions by 19.1%, reducing resident abortion rates by …
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burdensome for women seeking abortions - is estimated to prevent 20.5% of women seeking an abortion from reaching a provider, and …
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In the last three decades over a million abortions were performed annually in the United States. Recent empirical … studies assess the impact of legalization of abortions on living conditions of children and argue that legalization of … abortions provides better living conditions and human capital endowments to surviving children. This paper takes seriously the …
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This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...
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This paper studies the effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in which vocational tracks in upper secondary school were prolonged from two to three years and the curricula were made more academic. Our identification strategy takes advantage...
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and their physical capacity to give birth, children's health,...
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China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster in the early 1970s than it did after 1979. In this study, we highlight the importance of the Family Planning Leading Group in understanding the fertility decline since the...
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I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...
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