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The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal

Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E. - 2016

This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework that allows us to account for the endogeneity that arises from the simultaneity of the four...

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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter - 2015

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women …

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Gender Empowerment as an Enforcer of Individuals' Choice between Education and Fertility : Evidence from 19th Century France

Mishra, Tapas; Diebolt, Claude; Perrin, Faustine - 2021

of gender on the trade-off between education and fertility for 86 French counties during the 19th century. Endogeneity … particular, we find the existence of a significant and negative association between education and fertility. Further, while … gauging the effect of schooling on fertility, the short-run differences between male and female appear to be small whilst the …

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Children of the revolution : women's liberation and children's success

Maurin, Eric; Oliveira, Florentine - 2024

In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...

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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

Klasen, Stephan - 2019

participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018

participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...

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Effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in India

Makino, Momoe - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

India using the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS). Endogeneity of fertility is addressed using instruments and … India. Once endogeneity of fertility is addressed, there is no evidence for a negative birth order effect or sibling sex …

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The Impact of the Female Advantage in Education on the Marriage Market

Rodríguez-González, Ana - 2021

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in …-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and marriage and fertility outcomes. The results show that in marriage …

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