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The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes

Farré, Lidia - 2017

This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility … leave delayed higher-order births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a …

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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space

Delventhal, Matt; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Guner, … - 2022

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …

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Another Day, Another Visit : Impact of Arkansas' Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups

Altındaǧ, Onur; Joyce, Theodore J. - 2022

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas...

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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...

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Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe - 2022

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world …. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find that long run income growth significantly and robustly reduces … fertility. Further analysis suggests that young women's fertility is particularly affected and that women's education; age of …

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Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022

The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is well-known, little is known about other forms taken by revealed son preference, such as...

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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy : IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker...

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The Fertility Effects of School Entry Decisions

Kamb, Rebecca; Tamm, Marcus - 2022

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who enter school one year before the official entry date....

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Trap'd Teens : Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education

Jones, Kelly; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2022

affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …

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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2022

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

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