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Grandmothers’ availability for childcare has been shown to increase the labor force participation (LFP) and fertility … between mothers’ LFP and daughters’ LFP and fertility choices. We show that even though grandmothers who participate in the …
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grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence …
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This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high …
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positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
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connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For … development on growth, mediated through incompatibility of fertility and participation. It is argued that this incompatibility …
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This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …
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% of pre-birth earnings. We study the mandate's impact on women's employment and earnings around the birth of their first … child, as well as on their subsequent fertility by exploiting unique, rich administrative data in a difference … all dissipate by five years after birth. The mandate instead persistently increased subsequent fertility: affected women …
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two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …
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We examine the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of...
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