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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014 - February 27, 2014 (First version: January 29, 2014)
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406894
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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …, while child height-for-age declined by 11 to 13 percent. Supporting evidence suggests that the temporary fertility increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891527
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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018 - First version: July 25, 2018
trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …. We find that women in affected villages increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …, while child height-for-age declined by 11 to 13 percent. Supporting evidence suggests that the temporary fertility increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922177
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change … can explain this slow transition. For this end, we analyze the determinants of fertility transitions across the developing … driver of the fertility transition. Our results indicate that higher education of women, female employment in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173728
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Rainfall risk, fertility and development : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition
Grimm, Michael - 2017
income shocks. Identification relies on fertility differences between farm and non-farm households within counties and over … time. The results suggest that in areas with a high variance in rainfall the fertility differential between farm households … other relevant forces such as income, education and children’s survival as well as the spatial correlation in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745641
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How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-Term Outcomes?
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990882
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The economics of parenting
Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2019
Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and how parents' actions affect their children. In recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967160
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Rainfall risk, fertility and development: Evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition
Grimm, Michael - 2017
income shocks. Identification relies on fertility differences between farm and non-farm households within counties and over … time. The results suggest that in areas with a high variance in rainfall the fertility differential between farm households … other relevant forces such as income, education and children’s survival as well as the spatial correlation in fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746149
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change … can explain this slow transition. For this end, we analyze the determinants of fertility transitions across the developing … driver of the fertility transition. Our results indicate that higher education of women, female employment in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177193
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296710