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Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...

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School Starting Age and Infant Health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Patiño, David - 2023

We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the...

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Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mumin; Turan, Belgi - 2020

In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association between economically challenging conditions in-utero and child's birth weight. First, we utilize the temporal and spatial variations of...

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Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018

Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martin; Haddad, … - 2024

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Stable Income, Stable Family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...

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Higher education and fertility: Evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia

Tequame, Miron; Tirivayi, Nyasha - 2015

through positive assortative mating and the postponement of marriage and motherhood. …

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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from Indian Census

Sengupta, Shruti; Azam, Mehtabul - 2022

the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian trade liberalization on marriage and … experienced relative increase in marriage rate compared to the districts that experienced smaller tariff cuts. Moreover, tariff … impact of tariff cuts on marriage rate or workforce participation among young for rural areas. In contrast, tariff cuts …

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Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2023

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

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Women's Education, Marriage, and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Thailand's Compulsory Schooling Law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women …

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