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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696389
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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 1979
developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478776
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Baby Busts and Baby Booms : The Fertility Response to Shocks in Dynastic Models
Jones, Larry E. - 2010
Economic demographers have long analyzed fertility cycles. This paper builds a foundation for these cycles in a model … of fertility choice with dynastic altruism and aggregate shocks. It is shown that under reasonable parameter values …, fertility is pro-cyclical and that, following a shock, fertility continues to cycle endogenously as subsequent cohorts enter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462061
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The Baby Boom and World War II : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation … decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464939
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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
Bloom, David E. - 2007
We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465064
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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth : Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2005
the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, and for a slowdown in the rates of savings and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467564
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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition
Bloom, David E. - 2001
, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470030
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The Role of Fertility and Population in Economic Growth : Empirical ResultsFrom Aggregate Cross-National Data
Brander, James A. - 1993
to re-examine the effects of population growth and fertility on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474692
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Growth and Childbearing in the Short- and Long-Run
Chatterjee, Shoumitro - 2016
Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to … aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455680
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456363