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the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
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such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …
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This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Is natural resource abundance a blessing or a curse for a country? An important concern is the possibility that resource booms reduce human capital accumulation. These booms favor low-skill jobs, which increases the opportunity cost of education making it optimal for some cohorts to interrupt...
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What are the links between climate change, epidemics and socioeconomic inequality? While recent epidemics have focused attention on the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes, and a separate literature in climate science and environmental health has linked global environmental change to...
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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized classical estimates of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 27, 72-81) introduced...
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