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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 study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348147
, which has among the world’s highest fertility rates, I extend the classic work on child quantity-quality trade-offs to also … plausibly exogenous drivers of additional fertility: (1) same-sex sibling pairs in families with two or more children, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348813
opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …
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discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, fertility, and sex ratios at baptism: high-price years were followed by a decline in the number of registered …
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sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …
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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
This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287021
, which has among the world's highest fertility rates, I extend the classic work on child quantity-quality trade-offs to also … plausibly exogenous drivers of additional fertility: (1) same-sex sibling pairs in families with two or more children; (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014291015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262963