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We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …
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This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
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We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262963
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with …This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
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In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...
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that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru …
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incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
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