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Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective

O'Higgins, Niall - 2001

This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" and examines the various policy responses to it, including education and training, and active labour market policy. It emphasizes the need for adequate labour market information, policy monitoring and programme evaluation to help...

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Effects on Fertility of The Brazilian Cash Transfer Program: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Superti, Luiz Henrique - 2019

the program's effect on fertility outcomes. Problems associated with the data such as manipulation and attrition are … solved by using novel procedures found in the literature. We found an effect on birth spacing but not on fertility rates …. This study complements the literature in regard to cash transfers and fertility outcomes, and empirical evidence for the …

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Childhood immunization, mortality and human capital accumulation: Micro-evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh - 2009

In the mid-1980s, the Indian government embarked on one of the largest childhood immunization programs-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of this immunization program on child mortality and...

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Divorce and the birth control pill

MARCÉN, MIRIAM - 2012

This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...

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Why has the birth rate relatively increased in China's wealthy cities?

Chen, Nana; Xu, Hangtian - 2021

relative to those of other cities. A causal analysis exploiting variations in city-level birth rates and fertility policy … compliance rates from 2008 to 2019 supports our hypotheses. Moreover, our results suggest that the fertility relaxation has …

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The determinants of fertility in southeast and south Asian countries: an analysis of panel data

Teguh, Dartanto - 2009

The fertility rate in Southeast and South Asia is relatively high compared to other region in the world, but the trend … tends to decrease rapidly. This paper aims to quantitatively explore the factors influencing fertility rate in Southeast and …-2008 panel data, this study found that the infant mortality rate is an important factor influencing the high fertility rate in …

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Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility

Wang, Fei - 2012

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the … history. As for the contribution of the policy to fertility transition, the measure explains a sizable level shift of …

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Is the fertility response to the Australian baby bonus heterogeneous across maternal age? Evidence from Victoria.

Sinclair, Sarah; Boymal, Jonathan; de Silva, Ashton J - 2012

find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age …

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Preference for Sex of Children Among Women in Nepal

Sapkota, Jeet Bahadur; Paudel, Damaru Ballabha; … - 2018

The preference for a son at birth is one of the key issues of demographic studies conducted in less developed countries; however, there is a rare exploration of child’s sex preference among women in Nepal. This paper estimates the likelihood of a preference for son or daughter using the 2011...

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Investments in Health and Education Help Save Lives

Mamoon, Dawood; Arshed, Noman; Raza, Sidra - 2015

(Pakistan), revealed that fertility rate, number of hospitals, literacy rate, and proxy income are the major determinants that …

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