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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law

Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020

-born mothers-in-law can explain the fertility and labor supply decisions of native US women. Our results reveal that women's labor … intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes affect the fertility behavior of native women. …

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COVID-19 and the future of US fertility: what can we learn from Google?

Wilde, Joshua; Chen, Wei; Lohmann, Sophie - 2020

-validation criteria. Third, we use data on Google searches during the COVID-19 pandemic to predict changes in aggregate fertility rates in … declines in fertility due to COVID-19. This finding is consistent with elevated caseloads of COVID-19 in low-income and …

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The effect of antimalarial campaigns on child mortality and fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Coleman, Joseph; … - 2020

We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be … difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect of ITNs on mortality and fertility. We show that the … ITN distribution campaigns reduced all-cause child mortality, but surprisingly increased total fertility rates in the …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

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The interplay of family systems, social networks and fertility in europe cohorts born between 1920 and 1960

Mönkediek, Bastian; Bras, Hilde A. J. - In: Economic history of developing regions 31 (2016) 1, pp. 136-166

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Teen fertility and labor market segmentation : evidence from Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E.; Villa, Kira M. - 2016 - Draft November, 2016

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Fertility at work : children and women's labor market outcomes in urban Ghana

Heath, Rachel - 2016

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Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2017

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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The twin instrument

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016

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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation : a cross-national perspective

Schmitt, Christian - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...

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