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The returns to parental health : evidence from Indonesia
Luca, Dara Lee; Bloom, David E. - 2018
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951058
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Children of the revolution : women's liberation and children's success
Maurin, Eric; Oliveira, Florentine - 2024
In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048835
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
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The Implicit Costs of Motherhood Over the Lifecycle : Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
Neumeier, Christian - 2017
the labor force, differing levels of education, years of marriage and a number of demographic controls. We find that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962285
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858637
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Is there Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858670
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2021
employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241968
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2021
employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252369
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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392711
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The implicit costs of motherhood over the lifecycle : cross-cohort evidence from administrative longitudinal data
Neumeier, Christian; Sorensen, Todd; Webber, Douglas A. - 2017
the labor force, differing levels of education, years of marriage and a number of demographic controls. We find that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613112