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We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368339
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369582
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377275
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398642
Recent literature exploring fetal shocks has focused on the effects of exogenous, but rather rare and violent events (e.g., military conflicts, natural disasters, terrorist attacks) and found that in utero experience has scaring, life lasting consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of...
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corrected for, the non-cognitive correlation is close to that of cognitive ability. We also predict mothers' abilities and find …
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largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …
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We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …
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declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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estimating the causal effect of teenage fertility on education using an Instrumental Variables approach. Local abortion rates … that access to legal abortion reduced teenage fertility. We provide an exogenous instrument for teenage fertility - legal … voluntary termination of pregnancy since December 2012. This reform made Uruguay the only Latin-American country - except from …
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