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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Grimm, Michael - 2014

fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased … results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian …

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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2008

The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...

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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …

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Expressway to Power : Infrastructure Projects and Political Support

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Turan, Belgi - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence on how political parties consolidate power in an electoral democracy. We collect administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province-by-year variation in expressway construction to show that...

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The Impact of Eliminating a Child Benefit on Birth Timing and Infant Health

Borra, Cristina - 2014

We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In May 2010, the government announced that a 2,500-euro universal "baby bonus" would stop being paid to babies born on or after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from...

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The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences : A Follow-Up from Birth to Age 15

Kleinepier, Tom - 2017

Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for children's long-run neighborhood conditions...

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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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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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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2015

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women …

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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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