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Family size, sibling rivalry and migration : evidence from Mexico
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives … using biological fertility (miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate are not equally distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596080
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Migration and co-residence choices : evidence from Mexico
Bertoli, Simone; Murard, Elie - 2017
Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764649
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336961
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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?
González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669786
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Children in left-behind migrant households : education and gender equality
Saleemi, Sundus - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind" by the migrants. Left-behind households' expenditure on children's education and the gendered distribution of these expenditures are two outcomes of main interest. First, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522871
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Family migration and relative earnings potentials
Foged, Mette - 2016
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528839
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Impact of remittances on fertility : remittances are closely linked to household fertility choices with consequences at the community and country level
Naufal, George - 2015
inflows and fertility rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433778
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Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens: comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430651
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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Household size, birth order and child health in Botswana
Mmopelwa, David - 2019
One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource dilution hypothesis, according to which large sizes and high child birth order are likely to have negative effects. However, there are arguments that the assumption of a fixed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102357