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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Compared to developing economies, European transition economies had high levels of human capital when their transitions began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena...
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The quantity–quality fertility–education trade-off
Liu, Haoming - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children’s education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404970
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The quantity–quality fertility–education trade-off
Liu, Haoming - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) May, pp. 1-10
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children’s education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279374
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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019
capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more … remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively … fertility, an association which instead is muted within families. We end by showing that these results can be reconciled in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039317
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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321156
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The quantity–quality fertility–education trade-off
Liu, Haoming; Li, Li - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266218
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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002
Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007
Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women
Levine, Phillip B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10
It is not difficult to find statistics showing that 
teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a 
woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143955
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An empirical analysis of gender bias in education spending in Paraguay
Masterson, Thomas - 2008
Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266524
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Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women
Levine, Phillip B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404850