Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,747
Cover Image
The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
Cover Image
Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
Cover Image
Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858637
Cover Image
Is there Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858670
Cover Image
Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119937
Cover Image
Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124840
Cover Image
Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731996
Cover Image
Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2017
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947138
Cover Image
The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies : projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021
, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697468
Cover Image
The role of public sector expenditure on local economic development
Khusaini, Mohamad - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 182-193
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657359