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Religion predicting fertility behaviour of young women in contemporary Germany
Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth … that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being …
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Abortion laws and women's health
Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018
We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
employee retention, staff engagement, job complementarities, coworkers, hospitals, endogeneityAThis paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the...
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Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …
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Governance and the reversal of women's rights : the case of abortion in El Salvador
Viterna, Jocelyn; Guardado Bautista, Jose Santos; … - 2017
reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the …
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Do parents drink their children’s welfare? : intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? Intra-Household Allocation of Time Between Market Labour, Domestic Work and Child Care in Russia
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2017
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955316
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Double trouble: the burden of child rearing and working on maternal mortality
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Farbmacher, Helmut; Guber, Raphael; … - 2020
We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are based on administrative data on mortality for the years 1990 to 2010. We argue that twins are an unplanned shock to fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to...
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Son Preference and Child Labor in Nepal : The Household Impact of Sending Girls to Work
Koolwal, Gayatri B. - 2010
This paper presents evidence that increased earnings opportunities for girls can lower household preference for sons, as measured by the household's average reported ideal number of sons relative to ideal number of children. Using the 1995-96 Nepal Living Standards Survey, I find that reported...
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - 2011
This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child's first three years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using...
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