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decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …
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This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
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fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …
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Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market …
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Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories — children as … predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the “old-age security” to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are …
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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
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This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
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What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo …
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