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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …

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Raising the Financial Costs of Children and Fertility Responses: Evidence from the Kibbutz

Ebenstein, Avraham; Hazan, Moshe; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labour …, as well as patterns for age-specific labour-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data. …

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Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Female Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911

Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

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Sons or Daughters? Endogenous Sex Preferences and the Reversal of the Gender Educational Gap

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides a new explanation for the narrowing and reversal of the gender education gap. It highlights the indirect effect of returns to human capital on parents' preferences for sons and the resulting demand for children and education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of...

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Does Longevity Cause Growth?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children’s future income proportionally at all levels of...

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Long-Term Unemployment, Excess Demand and the Wage Equation in Britain, 1925-39

Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is argued that improved estimates of the wage equation can be obtained by taking account explicitly of factors which change the level of excess demand associated with the measured...

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British Economic Growth Before and After 1979: A Review of the Evidence

Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

The paper surveys the evidence on British economic growth performance since the war. It is shown that the hypotheses proposed by Bacon and Eltis, Kaldor and Thirlwall to account for slow growth are inadequate and that supply side problems leading to poor productivity performance are the most...

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