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Baby bonus, fertility, and missing women
Kim, Wookun - 2024
This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …
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Missing Women, Gender Imbalance and Sex Ratio at Birth : Why the One-Child Policy Matters
Wang, Qingfeng - 2019
In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the …
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The impact of targeted regulation of abortion providers laws on abortions and births
Arnold, Grace E. - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the...
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Fertility Choices and Sex Selection in Asia : Analysis and Policy
Ebenstein, Avraham Y. - 2013
-natal sex selection or immediate infanticide. Sex ratios are found to be higher among those anticipating lower fertility, such … as those under stricter government fertility limits. I present a model of a mother's fertility choice when she has access … to a sex-selection technology and faces a mandated fertility limit. By exploiting variation in fines levied in China for …
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Unintended consequences of family planning policies on the breastfeeding gap between sons and daughters
Chae, Minhee; Cai, Yong; Kim, Jun Hyung; Lavely, William R. - 2023
We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...
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The Reproductive Paradox of a “Strong Family” Society: The Case of Low Fertility in Italy
Saraceno, Chiara - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 1
Fertility rates are below replacement level in most industrialised countries. There are, however, substantial cross … associated with low fertility: delay in the formation of new families, persistent gender asymmetries in practice but also partly …-) decisions on fertility are a way of dealing with these constraints and tensions. …
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Trade and women
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China : identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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Change in the gender division of domestic work after mummy or daddy took leave : an examination of alternative explanations
Schober, Pia S.; Zoch, Gundula - 2015
This study investigates how the duration of child care leave taken by mothers and fathers relates to changes in couples’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care related leave may impact the gender division...
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