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Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …
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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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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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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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Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and …
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This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
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This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
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increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …
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fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We … the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and … for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle, consistent with stopping behavior. The result is robust …
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