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performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services …
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more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
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This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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This study examines the five-year impacts of a bicycle distribution program for adolescent girls in rural Zambia, implemented across 91 schools as part of a randomized controlled trial. While the program increased girls’ self-reported empowerment and reduced experiences of domestic and...
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economy would thus be negatively affected. -- migration ; human capital ; fertility ; brain drain ; economic growth …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
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What is the impact of the oral contraceptive pill on the mental health of adolescent girls? Using administrative data from Denmark and exploiting the variation in the timing of pill initiation in an event study design, we find that the likelihood of a depression diagnosis and antidepressant use...
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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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