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Does Childbearing Affect Cognitive Health in Later Life? Evidence From an Instrumental Variable Approach
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 975–994.
Published: 01 June 2022
... is associated with late-life cognition, but whether the relationship is causal remains unclear. We use an instrumental variable approach and data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe to examine whether having three or more versus two children affects late-life cognition. Parents often...
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A Time Series of Instrumental Fertility Variables
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 487–509.
Published: 01 November 1981
...N. B. Ryder Abstract Temporal variations in conventional fertility measures reflect the operation of instrumental variables: quantitative and temporal intentions; success in achieving intentions; and reproductive conditions. A set of such variables is described, using data from the 1975 National...
View articletitled, A Time Series of <span class="search-highlight">Instrumental</span> Fertility <span class="search-highlight">Variables</span>
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1195–1220.
Published: 01 June 2022
... impact of additional education on women's autonomy by leveraging the timing of compulsory schooling reforms in three Latin American countries: Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Using Demographic and Health Surveys, I implement an instrumental variable design using random exposure to compulsory schooling laws...
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View articletitled, Mass Education and Women's Autonomy: Evidence From Latin America
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... cognition may affect decisions relating to retiring. If so, the OLS estimates will be biased. To test for this possibility, instrumental variable (IV) estimation is used. This method requires an IV that is highly correlated with retirement duration but not correlated with cognition. The instrument used...
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View articletitled, Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
Published: 08 May 2017
... of children, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child, which is plausibly random. Given a strong son preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the firstborn is a girl. Our instrumental variable results show that children from larger families have lower educational...
View articletitled, Preference for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India
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Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1353–1373.
Published: 05 July 2017
..., with data from each country spanning multiple census years. For each country-year, we estimate micro-level instrumental variables models predicting secondary school attainment using number of siblings of the child, instrumented by the sex composition of the first two births in the family. We then analyze...
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View articletitled, Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Children and Careers: How Family Size Affects Parents’ Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1773–1793.
Published: 06 September 2017
...Sara Cools; Simen Markussen; Marte Strøm Abstract We estimate the effect of family size on various measures of labor market outcomes over the whole career until retirement, using instrumental variables estimation in data from Norwegian administrative registers. Parents’ number of children...
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Early teen marriage and future poverty
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 689–718.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of marriage and schooling choices? To better understand the true personal and societal consequences, in this article, I use an instrumental variables (IV) approach that takes advantage of variation in state laws regulating the age at which individuals are allowed to marry, drop out of school, and begin work...
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On the validity of retrospective assessments of pregnancy intention
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 199–213.
Published: 01 February 2002
... to determine actual pregnancy status at the time of interviews, which, in turn, was used as an instrumental variable for the retrospective (versus prospective) reporting of pregnancy intention. After correction for selective pregnancy recognition, we found no evidence that the retrospective assessment...
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The Impact of “Parent Care” on Female Labor Supply Decisions
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Susan L. Ettner Abstract Data from the 1986–1988 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels were used to analyze how informal-caregiving of disabled elderly parents affected female labor supply. Instrumental variables analyses suggested that coresidence with a disabled parent leads...
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The impact of child support on cognitive outcomes of young children
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 159–173.
Published: 01 May 1998
... that the distinction between cooperative and noncooperative awards is important. Finally, our instrumental variables estimates show that the effects of child support persist after we control for unobserved characteristics of fathers and families. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1998 1998...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 653–684.
Published: 01 April 2022
... status, household resources, and local development within the community. Estimates are negative in seven out of the 10 countries and results are robust to the use of nonparametric matching techniques and instrumental variables built through georeferenced ancillary sources. In exploring two potential...
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View articletitled, Safer If Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 535–562.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as exploiting variations in the implementation of China's Compulsory Education Law, we examine the effects of adult children's education on the prevalence of chronic cardiovascular illnesses among older parents in China and explore potential mechanisms. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that additional...
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View articletitled, Adult Children's Education and Older Parents' Chronic Illnesses in Aging China
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The changing relationship between family size and educational attainment over the course of socioeconomic development: Evidence from Indonesia
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 693–717.
Published: 01 August 2008
... but negative for more recent cohorts. Models using instrumental variables to address the potential endogeneity of fertility con rm these results. In contrast, rural areas show no significant association between family size and children’s schooling for any cohort. These findings show how the relationship...
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The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’ Schooling: Assessing the Exogenous Variation in Fertility Using Twins in Brazil
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1453–1477.
Published: 19 July 2012
... different regions within the country. We implement a twin birth instrumental variable approach to the nationally representative 1977–2009 PNAD data. Our results suggest an effect of family size on education that is not uniform throughout a period of significant social, economic, and demographic change...
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View articletitled, The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’ Schooling: Assessing the Exogenous Variation in Fertility Using Twins in Brazil
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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates From the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 841–855.
Published: 28 April 2012
... restriction violation in instrumental variable (IV) regression models. We suggest that previous research, which has shown that Vietnam-era veterans experienced significantly higher mortality than nonveterans, might be biased by nonrandom selection into the military and should be further investigated...
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Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 631–654.
Published: 01 April 2021
... information about all Italian citizens moving their residence abroad, as well as Italian birth records. Using an instrumental variable approach, which helps overcome endogeneity issues in the fertility-migration relationship, we find a positive impact of emigration on the total fertility rate at the Italian...
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View articletitled, Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy
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Can We Still Learn Something From the Relationship Between Fertility and Mother’s Employment? Evidence From Developing Countries
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 151–174.
Published: 19 January 2012
...Julio Cáceres-Delpiano Abstract In this work, I study the impact of fertility on mothers’ employment for a sample of developing countries. Using the event of multiple births as an instrumental variable (IV) for fertility, I find that having children has a negative impact on female employment...
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: The Effect of Retirement on Subsequent Mortality of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1801–2006
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1317–1346.
Published: 27 September 2011
... on mortality hazard and years-left-alive. Some substantive and methodological considerations suggest models that specify endogenous effects estimated by instrumental variables (IV) probit, IV Tobit, and IV regression methods. Other considerations suggest estimation by endogenous switching (ES) probit and ES...
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View articletitled, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: The Effect of Retirement on Subsequent Mortality of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1801–2006
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in the educational achievements of recent birth cohorts. Harnessing a change in compulsory school laws and applying an instrumental variables approach, we found that each year of offspring schooling was associated with higher overall cognition among parents but was less predictive across different cognitive...
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View articletitled, Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico
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