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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006
the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309272
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054653
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330129
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003236412
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946978
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150082
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Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality
Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755389
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021924
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346051
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It's All in the Stars : The Chinese Zodiac and the Effects of Parental Investments on Offspring's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Development
Tan, Chih Ming - 2018
The importance of (early) parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogenous, it is a great challenge to empirically estimate their importance. This paper exploits a rich...
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