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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023

Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics" spread over the entire U.S. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth...

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Is the quantity-quality trade-off a trade-off for all, none, or some?

Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - 2009

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire...

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Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement

Jürges, Hendrik; Stella, Luca; Hallaq, Sameh; Schwarz, … - 2017

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of...

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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the...

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Perceptions, expectations, and entrepreneurship: The role of extreme events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events - natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues - such as fear of failure in starting a business venture,...

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Adjusting Household Structure : School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2004

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

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Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence

Donni, Olivier; Molina, José Alberto - 2018

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

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Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families: Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - 2018

the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions. …

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Cooperative Household Models

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

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