Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
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- Moshe Hazan & Hosny Zoabi, 2015. "Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 125(587), pages 1191-1226, September.
- Hazan, Moshe & Zoabi, Hosny, 2011. "Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?," CEPR Discussion Papers 8590, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Hazan, Moshe & Zoabi, Hosny, 2012. "Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?," Foerder Institute for Economic Research Working Papers 275751, Tel-Aviv University > Foerder Institute for Economic Research.
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JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2013-01-19 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2013-01-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2013-01-19 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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