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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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Contraceptive access creates positive selection in infant health
Flynn, James - 2024
This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long-acting reversible contraceptives to reproductive-age...
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054653
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(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply
Rondinelli, Concetta; Zizza, Roberta - 2011
The negative association between fertility and female labour supply is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. We … nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908342
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Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes
Machado, Matilde P.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 407-439
Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and … ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We … women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States …
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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …
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Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called...
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021924
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Temperature and sex ratios at birth
Ghany, Jasmin Abdel; Wilde, Joshua; Dimitrova, Anna; … - 2024
Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the effect of prenatal temperature exposure on birth sex by linking data on 5 million births in 33 sub-Saharan African countries and India with high-resolution temperature data. We find...
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Motherhood postponement and wages in Europe
Bratti, Massimiliano; Meroni, Elena Claudia; Pronzato, … - In: ifo DICE report 15 (2017) 2, pp. 31-37
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