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Economic development and female labor participation in the Middle East and North Africa: A test of the U-shape hypothesis

Verme, Paolo - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 3, pp. 1-21

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is known for having low female labor market participation rates compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that countries in this region do not follow a U-shape relation between female participation and GDP during the...

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The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran

Azimi, Ebrahim - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-11

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

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Pensions and fertility: back to the roots - The introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …

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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation

Carrasco, Raquel - 1999

to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …

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Money, Endogenous Fertility and Economic Growth

Petrucci, Alberto - 1999

accumulation and inflation with endogenous fertility, i.e. endogenous population growth. The model establishes an inverse relation … money. A higher monetary growth rate increases fertility, since it reduces its opportunity cost, and hence diminishes …

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Bismarck in the bedroom? Pension reform and fertility: Evidence 1870-2010

Jäger, Philipp - 2017

Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility … rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is … limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility trends before and after 23 pension reforms using a long-run panel …

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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 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...

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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

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