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Did improvements in household technology cause the baby boom? : evidence from electrification, appliance diffusion, and the AMISH
Bailey, Martha J.; Collins, William J. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799783
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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish
Bailey, Martha J. - 2012
advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754941
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Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish
Bailey, Martha J. - 2009
advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464008
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Essays on macroeconomics and population growth
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003138678
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Revisiting the link between electrification and fertility : evidence from the early 20th Century United States
Vidart, Daniela - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051438
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474583
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478487
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495766