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fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case … peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …
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Properties of blogging networks are derived from a model where bloggers devote attention to others, produce content for others, and exchange attention with content within their network of relations. The predictions from the model are tested with a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging...
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camps. Second, if the relative advantage of educated mothers over their uneducated counterpart dissipates with time in the …. The relative advantage of educated mothers increases with time in the camp. In a context of destitution and dependence …
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In this paper, we use twin birth as an instrument to estimate the effects of fertility on female labor force …
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We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...
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The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every Republican and revoked under every Democrat. It was...
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Despite the bulk of international migrants being youth, little is known about the factors driving young people … youth to migrate abroad as well as the probability that they turn this aspiration into a more concrete plan over the … and employed youth. Results also show that material deprivation may represent a significant push factor behind youth …
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developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young … areas for both men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing …
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