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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth …Religion Predicting Fertility Behaviour of Young Women in Contemporary GermanyReligion in contemporary Germany is … Catholic, Protestant, Muslim or non‐religious shapes fertility patterns of young women in contemporary Germany. The paper …
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I specify a dynamic life-cycle model of abortion, contraceptive use, schooling, and labor supply decisions of US women … decrease abortion rates substantially, while also leading to an increase in women's schooling …. I structurally estimate the model, allowing for abortion misreporting, using data from the NLSY97, aggregate abortion …
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reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the … following questions: What are the likely causes of rights reversals? How might rights reversals be more consequential for women …
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Native American women have suffered years of systematic injustice; the most tyrannical act in modern times may arguably …, Native American women are missing from the conversation. The Marshall Trilogy's longstanding effects, comprised of three … by Native American women. Without proper redress, Native Americans will continue to be afflicted by perpetual …
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implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … discuss potential mechanisms, showing evidence that favours selective miscarriage. Positive selection of women into twinning …
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We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …
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This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …
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We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to the decline in child mortality, women delayed … childbearing and had fewer children overall. Fewer women had three or more children, and a larger share remained childless. We …
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fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women’s outcomes using …
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