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Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...

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School Starting Age and Infant Health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2023

We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the...

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Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mumin; Turan, Belgi - 2020

In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association between economically challenging conditions in-utero and child's birth weight. First, we utilize the temporal and spatial variations of...

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Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018

Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...

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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes

Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018

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School starting age and infant health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2023

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Frontier history and gender norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2024

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice

Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

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Which children stabilize marriage?

Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - 2013

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

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