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of men's additional income. -- Guest-worker migration ; Gender ; Fertility …Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women …
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Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...
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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...
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Previous studies usually use child gender-related variables as instruments for fertility choices in households. However …, we find that without considering the effect of child gender, the traditional IV estimate of the fertility effect will be … if the child gender directly affect the outcome variable other than changing the number of children, the exclusion …
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whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender …
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gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …
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and fertility rates under (implicit) preference for male children. The results show how male preference and fertility …
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