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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of … fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and …
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This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …
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This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …
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We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of … fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and …
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Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....
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This paper provides a general formulation of the regression discontinuity (RD) design and applies this method to analyse the effects of the 1995 UK pill scare. We show that in the five months following a health warning on the third generation pill, conception rates rose by more than 7%, abortion...
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