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Title: Essays on Human Capital, Fertility, and Child Development
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1. Eshaghnia, Seyed Mohammad Sadegh
Essays on Human Capital, Fertility, and Child Development
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, 2019
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Children; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; Gender; Human Capital; Labor Market Outcomes; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

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In chapter two, I study the impact of females' perceptions regarding their future fertility behavior on their human capital investments and labor market outcomes. I exploit a natural experiment to study the causal effect of fertility anticipation on individual's investments in human capital. I use the arguably exogenous variation in gender mix of children as an exogenous shock to the probability of further fertility. I document that having two children of the same gender is associated with about 5% lower wages for the mother compared to having two children of the opposite sexes. Mothers with same-sex children perceive themselves as more likely to bear one more child, and so less attached to the labor market, so invest less in human capital, and this is reflected in wages today.
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Eshaghnia, Seyed Mohammad Sadegh. Essays on Human Capital, Fertility, and Child Development. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, 2019.