Metadata record for Replication data for: Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Replication data for: Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
112710
http://doi.org/10.3886/E112710V1
Daniel Aaronson
Fabian Lange
Bhashkar Mazumder
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Aaronson, Daniel, Lange, Fabian, and Mazumder, Bhashkar. Replication data for: Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112710V1
[Demography, Education, Fertility, Development]
I20 Education and Research Institutio General
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
By allowing for an extensive margin in the standard quantity-quality model, we generate new insights into fertility transitions. We test the model on Southern black women aected by a large-scale school construction program. Consistent with our model, women facing improved schooling opportunities for their children were more likely to have at least one child but chose to have smaller families overall. By contrast, women who themselves obtained more schooling due to the program delayed childbearing along both the extensive and intensive margins and entered higher quality occupations, consistent with education raising opportunity costs of child rearing.
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