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Schooling, marriage and age of first birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. … year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education …

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More schooling, more children? : compulsory schooling and fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

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Birth order and health of newborns : what can we learn from Danish registry data?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Molitor, Ramona - 2015

Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...

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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016

affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …

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Birth order effects and educational achievement in the developing world

Schwefer, Maximilian - 2018

Studies on the role of birth order in educational achievement in developing countries have yielded contradictory findings. This study uses unique and novel data on 4,362 siblings living in alternative care families in 54 countries. Results suggest negative birth order effects among biological...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …

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Children of the revolution : women's liberation and children's success

Maurin, Eric; Oliveira, Florentine - 2024

In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...

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How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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