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The differential impacts of contingent employment on fertility: evidence from Australia
Wooden, Mark; Trong Anh Trinh; Mooi-Reci, Irma - 2021
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With …, previous research has mostly not considered whether the effects of employment status on fertility might vary with other worker … characteristics. We draw on 19 years of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to investigate …
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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker...
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608
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Child health, remote work and the female wage penalty
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2020
Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285983
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Is the future of work childless? : self-employment and fertility
Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149207
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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390279
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The effect of air pollution on fertility outcomes in Europe
Stump, Árpád; Herczeg, Bálint; Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes - 2023
%. In the heterogeneity analysis, we find that air pollution is more harmful to fertility in countries with already high … the fertility effects of air pollution using an extended number of countries and years and at the same time including more … pollutants have much less role in shaping fertility outcomes compared to the findings of the previous literature. This difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454663
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The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401638
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Is the future of work childless? Self-employment and fertility
Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098929