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How does childbirth impact the career paths of men and women within the same household? To what extent does the unpaid care work related to this event contribute to the downward mobility experienced by women in a highly flexible labour market like Italy? Drawing on feminist and labour market...
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Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long-lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which PoB contributes to a wide range of domains of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence career aspirations in students, including the role of university, gender, and parental education. The research methodology involved analyzing the attitudes of students at four universities in India using a closed-ended...
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In this paper, we attempt to analyze the determinants of unintended births among Colombian women aged 40 years old or more using data from the Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud 2005, which is Colombia´s national demographic and health survey. Given the especial characteristics of the...
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The transition of contraception use in Colombia was an important moment when health and fertility were tightly associated with social behavior. Multi-level multi-process (duration and method choice) life history analysis of contraceptive use allows the identification of determinants. Individual...
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En este artículo se presenta la adaptación y el uso de un modelo de Lucas (2002) de crecimiento económico, transición demográfica y acumulación de capital humano, para interpretar la evolución demográfica y macroeconómica de Colombia en los siglos xix y xx. El ejercicio muestra la...
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El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo las evaluaciones de políticas públicas, en particular las evaluaciones de impacto, pueden constituir insumos importantes para la toma de decisiones de parte de los hacedores de política y, por ende, para el mejoramiento de las intervenciones...
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Este artículo realiza una revisión teórica y empírica acerca de los factores que inciden en la fecundidadadolescente. Entre las variables analizadas se encuentran, el estrato socioeconómico, lajefatura femenina, el nivel educativo, el empleo femenino, el uso de la planificación familiar,...
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This paper addresses the estimation of peer group effects on a fertility decision. The peer group is composed of neighbors with similar socio-demographic characteristics. In order to deal with the endogeneity problem associated to the estimation of neighborhood effects, an instrumental variables...
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Resumen: Durante los años sesenta la población colombiana creció a tasas históricamente altas, los niños y niñas nacidos durante este periodo se hicieron jóvenes adultos en las décadas de los ochenta y noventa, años en los cuales más homicidios se cometieron en la historia reciente del...
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