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The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
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identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated decrease is higher than the effects estimated in previous literature for … fertility such as population ageing …
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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This paper analyses the association of labour market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 … entire period, these years have been marked by an initial catching-up of total fertility rates after marked declines in … previous decades. Furthermore, after peaking in 2008, total fertility rates declined substantially, fueling concerns about …
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The paper is devoted to the fertility intentions of the migrants from Russia belonging to the recent wave of so called … disruption hypothesis and predict the drop in the fertility intentions of new-wave Russian migrants in comparison with the old … the active reproductive age, partnered and in many cases childless, the authors find a strong intention to the fertility …
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286492
fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …
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over fertility. Furthermore, we find that the ability to commit to household resource allocations depends on the gender of …
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the fertility rate, the timing and the spacing of births. First, theoretical models on the interaction between family … policy and the fertility rate are analyzed. In addition, experiences from other European countries are evaluated. It is … concluded that the new legislation is an important step towards a higher fertility rate and a shorter spacing of births, whereas …
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application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …
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