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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...
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Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing...
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We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …
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by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists’ fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …
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population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
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the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …
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the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of …
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