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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility …
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, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …
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, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …
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fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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I study how bias in agricultural technological change affects labor market opportunities and fertility in a modern … of female labor into other sectors. Further, this technology adoption increased fertility, due to increases in overall … market opportunities or contribute to fertility decline, unless substitution effects are negative and sufficiently large …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …
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We experimentally test if enabling individuals to incentivize others to socialize with them can strengthen social networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold...
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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 …
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affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …
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