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initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth … regime, life expectancy and fertility move in opposite directions. The dynamics display the key features of the demographic …
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fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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This paper studies the pre-industrial origins of modern-day fertility decline. The setting is in Anhwei Province, China …
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The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
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This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...
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This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation 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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