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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China

Li, Hongbin - 2015

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

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Household size, birth order and child health in Botswana

Mmopelwa, David - 2019

One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource dilution hypothesis, according to which large sizes and high child birth order are likely to have negative effects. However, there are arguments that the assumption of a fixed and...

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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho - 2007

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides

Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...

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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?

Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019

We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on parental preferences regarding inequality in the...

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Sons or Daughters? Endogenous Sex Preferences and the Reversal of the Gender Educational Gap

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - 2012

This paper provides a new explanation for the narrowing and reversal of the gender education gap. It highlights the indirect effect of returns to human capital on parents' preferences for sons and the resulting demand for children and education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of...

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A bad break-up? : assessing the effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum on migration

Clifton-Sprigg, Joanna; Homburg, Ines; James, Jonathan G.; … - 2023

By voting to leave the European Union (EU) in 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) set off a long period of uncertainty and signalled its support for the Leave campaigns, which centred around restricting migration. This paper researches how this decision affected EU-UK migration patterns. We exploit...

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Gravity predictions of international migration flows

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; López Molina, Gonzalo - 2024

What is the future of international migration flows? The growing availability of bilateral international migration data has resulted in an improved understanding of the determinants of migration flows through the estimation of theory-based gravity models. However, the use of these models as a...

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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013

This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...

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Let's be selective about migrant self-selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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