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Estimating Fertility Responses to Expectations: Evidence From the 1958 British Cohort

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The aim of this work is to explore the relationship between unemployment and fertility. The hypothesis we investigate … is that unemployment affects fertility decisions by influencing individual`s expectations of future job opportunities and … and future job opportunities are relevant in explaining fertility patterns. In particular, higher expected wage levels …

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When Smaller Families Look Contagious: A Spatial Look at the French Fertility Decline Using an Agent-Based Simulation Model

Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra; Murphy, Tommy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

to experience a systematic decline in fertility, a decline that took place in a very distinctive geographical pattern … fertility (Bretagne and the Massif Central) shrank until they more or less disappeared in the early 1900s. In an attempt to … social influence in fertility decisions. We assess how different behavioural assumptions and network topologies cause …

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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risk harzard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

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Working Women, Men`s Home Time and Lowest Low Fertility

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Laat, Joost de - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Southern Europe`s rapid fertility decline has resulted in a positive cross-country correlation between female labor … force participation and fertility. We develop a model with heterogeneity in attitudes towards women`s home time and a social …, households with less egalitarian attitudes have more children but lower female labor force participation. However, consistent …

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Student effort and educational attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function

Metcalfe, Robert; Burgess, Simon; Proud, Steven - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

We use a sharp, exogenous and repeated change in the value of leisure to identify the impact of student effort on educational achievement. The treatment arises from the partial overlap of the world's major international football tournaments with the exam period in England. Our data enable a...

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Preferences over Leisure and Consumption of Siblings and Intra-Household Allocation

Kirchberger, Martina - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

differences in parents' relative altruism. Families seem to function as market economies in which children trade off leisure and …Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household. However, their preferences over consumption and … builds a theoretical and empirical model for children's time and consumption allocations in a household. We test the …

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Does the Rotten Child Spoil His Companion? Spatial Peer Effects Among Children in Rural India

Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisitions using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest geographical neighbors, into a prodiction function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh,...

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Children and Demand: Direct and Non-Direct Effects

Lechene, Valerie; Browning, Martin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

details of their completed fertility and whether or not they currently have children living at home. We consider only those …It is universally accepted that children have important effects on household demand patterns. This is usually … attributed to the direct effect of children; for example children are food intensive. Alternative inferences are that the …

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Firm size and human capital as determinants of productivity and earnings

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The evidence that earnings rise with firm size and that human capital affects earnings based on labour market data are two of the most robust empirical findings in economics. In contrast the evidence for scale economies in firm data is very weak. The limited direct evidence of human capital on...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the 1970-2000 period. Controlling for fixed effects as...

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