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find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age …
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We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078387
From 1977-2001, 15 US states mandated health insurance providers to offer coverage for infertility treatment. Although the majority of the past literature has studied impacts on older women who are likely to seek treatment, this paper proposes that the mandates may have had a wider impact on the...
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The fertility rate in Southeast and South Asia is relatively high compared to other region in the world, but the trend … tends to decrease rapidly. This paper aims to quantitatively explore the factors influencing fertility rate in Southeast and …-2008 panel data, this study found that the infant mortality rate is an important factor influencing the high fertility rate in …
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of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …
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We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility and … market history as well as fertility behaviour, and physical and mental health indicators. Our main results are that due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184652
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185786
This paper provides an overview of developments in fertility, family policy models, and intensity of work … 1990s might have been an important determinant of the decline in fertility seen in post-socialist countries in the 1990s … to diversity in rates of fertility improvement in the region. It concludes by encouraging more in-depth research on the …
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The transition of contraception use in Colombia was an important moment when health and fertility were tightly … contraception. Younger women displayed discontinuous behavior with a large proportion of total fertility (which itself has been …
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Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on—and sometimes falling below—rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …
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