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benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …
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This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference - Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn...
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growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more …
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special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …
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Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility … rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is … limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility trends before and after 23 pension reforms using a long-run panel …
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This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …
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The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …
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. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …
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instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …
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