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issues, including female labor force participation, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …
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estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United … both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn …
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This paper empirically tests the existence of Malthusian population dynamics in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that, during the agricultural stage of development, resource surpluses beyond the maintenance of subsistence consumption were channeled primarily into population...
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This paper empirically tests the predictions of the Malthusian theory with respect to both population dynamics and income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during this period generated only temporary gains in income...
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