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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have …
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remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility. …
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pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …
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We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … wages, women with higher education face larger negative effects of children on labor supply, which suggest they are … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …
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. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are … of match quality compared to the older cohort, while the new generation of women is doing better on average. …
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We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … wages, women with higher education face larger negative effects of children on labor supply, which suggest they are … propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity …
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While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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