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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799738
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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149768
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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - CESifo - 2014
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075723
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Primary Education and Fertility Rates in Southern Africa: Evidence from Before the Demographic Transition
Bittencourt, Manoel - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014
We investigate whether primary school completion has played any role on total fertility rates in all fifteen members of …, suggests that primary education has indeed reduced fertility rates in the region, or that the community is already trading …-off quantity for quality of children. The results are important not only because lower fertility, caused by education, implies more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095441
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Education and Fertility: Panel Time-Series Evidence from Southern Africa
Bittencourt, Manoel - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014
In this paper we investigate whether secondary school enrolment has played any role on total fertility rates in all … suggest that education has indeed reduced fertility rates in the region, or that the community is already trading-off quantity … for quality of children. The results are important not only because lower fertility, caused by education, implies more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095451
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? : The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004
that increase educational attainment reduce early fertility? This paper investigates whether increasing mandatory … legislation aimed at improving educational outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262157
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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception
Grönqvist, Hans - 2009
This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273929
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Teenage childbearing and cognitive development
Pepper, John V.; Brien, Michael J.; Loya, Gregory E. - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 391-416
In this paper we examine how having a child as a teen affects the cognitive development of young women as measured on standardized tests. The research in this paper makes use of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, a biennial survey that contains information on a cohort of young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760476
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Putting teenagers on the pill: the consequences of subsidized contraception
Grönqvist, Hans - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991067
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Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa
Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
Teenage childbearing is considered a social problem with costs to the teenage mother, her child and society at large. In South Africa, media attention suggests a contemporary crisis in teen childbearing; often linking this to a fear that the Child Support Grant incentivises motherhood among...
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