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We trace the drivers of the Philippines' fertility decline over the last fifty years culminating in 2022 with a below …-replacement 1.9 total fertility rate. Applying a modified Kitagawa-OaxacaBlinder decomposition on the combined experiences of about … 65,000 married women in six rounds of the Philippine National Demographic (and Health) Survey, we show that the most …
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births is due to hot weather harming reproductive health around the time of conception. Birth rates only partially rebound … after the initial decline. Moreover, the rebound shifts births toward summer months, harming infant health by increasing … third trimester exposure to hot weather. Worse infant health raises health care costs in the short term as well as reducing …
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This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within … households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment … allocation of household resources and own health. …
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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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