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An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...
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Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …. Although these measures are mainly motivated by equity considerations, they will generally also have an impact on fertility. …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
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fertility behaviour by an increase in contraceptive use through a mass media campaign. The childbearing dynamics of women is … policy to influence fertility behaviour and preferences. For effective implementation of such programmes, media plays a … about contraceptive usage. …
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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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first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …
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first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …
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headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …
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