Early childbearing and the option to postpone
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Keywords
Childbearing; education; option value; fertility decisions; Colombia.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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