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Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2014

Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of...

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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...

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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...

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Fertility and housing

Day, Creina - In: China economic journal : the official journal of the … 8 (2015) 2, pp. 172-190

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Sons or daughters? : sex preferences and the reversal of the gender educational gap

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 81 (2015) 2, pp. 179-201

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Becker and the demographic transition

Lee, Ronald Demos - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 81 (2015) 1, pp. 67-74

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Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility

Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

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Offline effects of online connecting : the impact of broadband diffusion on teen fertility decisions

Guldi, Melanie; Herbst, Chris M. - 2015

teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize … that increasing access to high-speed internet can influence fertility decisions by changing the size of the market as well … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased …

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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": for whom? : evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban

Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2013

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...

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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

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