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labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments …
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on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
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for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …
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-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using …
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look for evidence of a gender gap in dishonesty among elected representatives, as well as how this changes with time in … office. Based on a sample of 356 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India, we combine survey … data on attitudes towards corruption with data from incentivized experiments. While we find little evidence of a gender gap …
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This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a difference-in-difference specification in which we...
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This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood diseases. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936 based on historical sources. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...
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