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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...
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fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive …- ousness should accentuate this fertility effect. The net fertility impact of the Covid-19 outbreak would ultimately depend not …
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
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. Our results shed light on the importance of economic and financial education for the youth in developing countries. …
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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …
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In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one more year of general education, which, according to the...
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Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female … incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …
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over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …
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pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …
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