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fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit … low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to …
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19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …
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observable characteristics, which explains: (i) why some women did not alter their fertility decisions during these uncertain …
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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting … by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility. …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …
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fertility relative to Democratic counties, a shift amounting to 1.2 to 2.2% of the national fertility rate. In addition …, Hispanics see fertility fall relative to non-Hispanics, especially compared to rural or evangelical whites. …
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relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …
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School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who enter school one year before the official entry date....
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affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …
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