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and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …
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supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …
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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
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It is well known that highly "female" fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …
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