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Analysis of contraceptive use among homeless women in Kenya : a case of Nairobi county
Pkaremba, Lydia Cheruto; Oleche, Martine Odhiambo; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
Many factors influence the utilization of reproductive healthcare services in Kenya. Despite the effort by the government and other stakeholders to improve access and utilization of these services, there remains a major challenge in reaching out to marginalized segments of society. The study...
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"Momma's got the pill" : how Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut shaped US childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 98-129
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729207
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A note on contraception, social norms, and growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Kocharkov, Georgi; Santos, Cézar - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 27 (2023) 3, pp. 869-878
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Genes and sales
Gong, Shiyang; Li, Qian; Su, Song; Zhang, Juanjuan - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 6, pp. 3902-3922
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404191
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Malthusian stagnation is efficient
Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460
environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully … et al. (2007). We also show that efficient allocation in the endogenous fertility case differs significantly from its … exogenous fertility counterpart. In particular, optimal steady state population is proportional to the amount of fixed resources …
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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449390
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471012
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On the origins of risk-taking in financial markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - In: The journal of finance : the journal of the American … 72 (2017) 5, pp. 2229-2278
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764445