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Fertility and Social Security [PDF]
The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding?
Michele Boldrin +2 more
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Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility [PDF]
Infertility currently affects over 6 million individuals in the United States. While most health insurance plans nationwide do not cover infertility diagnoses or treatments, to date fifteen states have enacted some form of infertility insurance mandate ...
Schmidt Lucie
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BMC PsychologyAccording to the World Population Prospects 2022, fertility rates are projected to continue declining in most regions globally. Research has shown that the use of social network sites (SNSs) has been linked to the perception of fertility risk and reduces
Xuemeng Zhang +3 more
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionChina’s declining fertility rate has raised significant demographic concerns. While prior research has largely emphasized economic and structural determinants, less attention has been paid to culturally embedded psychological mechanisms. This
Yuan Zhu, Zhirong Tian
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Menstrual cycle phase does not predict political conservatism.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent authors have reported a relationship between women's fertility status, as indexed by menstrual cycle phase, and conservatism in moral, social and political values. We conducted a survey to test for the existence of a relationship between menstrual
Isabel M Scott, Nicholas Pound
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American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Changing climates are leading to more frequent and severe heat waves, potentially threatening plant populations. Both acclimation to stress and selection for heat‐escape or heat‐resistance phenotypes occur during heat waves. However, plastic responses and selection do not necessarily interact cohesively—even producing trait responses ...
Lana F. Gaspard +4 more
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Completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules [PDF]
This paper develops a simple age-period-cohort framework in completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules, and makes full use of 1917--2005 U.S. data to obtain robust outcomes. Empirically, we indicate that the period effect is the key to transforming
Pao-Chih Roger Cheng, Eric S. Lin
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Parenthood and self-fulfilment: does having children matter to Italian young-adults?
GenusItalian fertility is often portrayed as suppressed mainly by external barriers – e.g., precarious jobs, high housing costs, limited childcare—that prevent people from acting on their desire for children.
Francesca Luppi +2 more
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Severe Headbanging Responsive to Levodopa in a Child With FOXP1 Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We report a 9‐year‐old female with FOXP1 syndrome due to a de novo in‐frame deletion in the FOXP1 gene. The child has a severe neurodevelopmental disorder including global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder. At age 2, she developed severe headbanging, which was progressive and did not respond to multidisciplinary, behavioral ...
Pamela Veale +2 more
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Fertility decline in North-Central Namibia [PDF]
This study examines fertility decline in North-Central Namibia in the period 1960-2000. A Scandinavian-type parish-register system, established in the beginning of 20th Century and still in use, provided register-based data for fertility analysis ...
Riikka Shemeikka +2 more
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