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fertility levels. To shed some light on the importance of this fact, education attainment and total children ever born have been … of education with fertility for women. Due to the nature of the response variable, children ever born, which is a count …Pakistan is one of those nations that is suffering from the complications of higher fertility and lower levels of …
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and election, lead to greater engagement by education stakeholders and in turn to learning. Test scores improve in …
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This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys …. We use variation in the timing of educational reforms across these countries as an instrument for education. Using IV …-probit models, we find causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health. One additional year of schooling is …
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gender wage gap, we establish (1) a significant impact of technological progress on education (positive) and fertility …A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and …, through interaction with child quantity‐quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD …
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Recent research suggests that the fertility-education relationship may be mediated by the educational attainment of the … partner, especially among the tertiary-educated. However, there are no studies focusing on the couple-education-fertility …
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Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker …
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The aim of this paper is to assess how mothers’ education affects their experience of motherhood and parenthood. The … of maternity and parental leave in relation to the degree of education achieved by women mothers. The sub-objectives of …
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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather … mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …
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logistic regression analyses, we find differences in the association of educational level and fertility plans by gender and … country. In Germany, education is positively related to the intention to have further children. This pattern is more … evidence for this association. For Norwegian women, education and the intention to have further children also seem to be …
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