Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …

The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by … methodology, and an improved data perturbation algorithm. We find that the coefficients’ estimates in abortion-crime regressions …

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich …

values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to …

This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …

Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …