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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …
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occupation, marital status and fertility choices of women over the life cycle. A discrete choice dynamic utility maximization …, ability, race, and the presence of young children. …
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of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands … of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not …
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In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater … education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …
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workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …
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live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
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live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
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In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … Community Household Panel (ECHP) dataset. In order to handle the endogeneity issue in fertility decisions, we use the Linear … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the …
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