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Maternal mediation of retail food promotions directed at children
Vohra, Jyoti; Soni, Pavleen - In: Journal of international food & agribusiness marketing 34 (2022) 1, pp. 39-59
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Working women and fertility : the role of grandmothers' labor force participation
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 123-147
Grandmothers’ availability for childcare has been shown to increase the labor force participation (LFP) and fertility … between mothers’ LFP and daughters’ LFP and fertility choices. We show that even though grandmothers who participate in the …
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
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Optimal fertility along the life cycle
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 55 (2014) 1, pp. 185-224
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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia using a dynamic model of fertility and employment
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - 2013
With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis … model of fertility and labor force participation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. We find that the … program increased long-run fertility by about 0.15 children per woman. …
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Maternal health care : the case of iron supplementation in India
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Muhammad Ali - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 7 (2013) 2, pp. 263-275
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia using a dynamic model of fertility and employment
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364756
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458585
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458811