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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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Ten Facts about Son Preference in India
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437014
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …
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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Unlike most advanced countries, the U.S. does not have a federal paid sick leave (PSL) policy; however, multiple states have adopted PSL mandates. PSL can facilitate healthcare use among women of child-bearing ages, including use of family planning services such as contraception, in-vitro...
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How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S : A Randomized Control Trial
Bailey, Martha J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner; Prettyman, Alexa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322784
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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers
Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Training to become a physician involves long work hours that can be physically demanding, particularly for surgeons. Are birth outcomes of physician mothers affected as a result? Using Texas birth data from 2007-2014, we compared birth outcomes between physicians and another highly educated...
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
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Estimating Causal Effects of Fertility on Life Course Outcomes : Evidence Using A Dyadic Genetic Instrumental Variable Approach
Zheng, Boyan; Lu, Qiongshi; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226152
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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
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