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likely to have stabilized total fertility rates during the crisis; however, the drop in abortions could also have contributed …. Analyses of fertility patterns during crises should pay attention to changes in abortions. …Although abortion trends can be highly informative for understanding fertility reactions amid COVID-19 pandemic, this …
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waiting periods for abortions, distinguishing between "one- trip" waiting periods that allow counseling and information to be …-trip waiting periods do not have substantial effects on abortions or births. Two-trip waiting periods are estimated to reduce … abortions and delay those that still occur, increasing second trimester abortions by 19.1%, reducing resident abortion rates by …
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To study long-run large-scale early childhood policies, this paper incorporates early childhood investments into a standard general-equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model. After estimating it using US data, we show that an RCT evaluation of a short-run small-scale...
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We simulate the short- and long-term distributional consequences of COVID-19 in the four largest Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be very significant, but that additional spending on social...
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Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
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Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
the fertility rate, the timing and the spacing of births. First, theoretical models on the interaction between family … policy and the fertility rate are analyzed. In addition, experiences from other European countries are evaluated. It is … concluded that the new legislation is an important step towards a higher fertility rate and a shorter spacing of births, whereas …
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Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
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Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429242
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438681