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considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator – total fertility rate. Using a panel … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …
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This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...
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educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …
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This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the …
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This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the … research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the main element explaining the increase in fertility rates, this paper …
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