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Demand for Children in Low Income Countries.

Shultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1994

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Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783471

Visitations and Transfers in Non Intact Households.

Del Boca, D.; Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783511

Eroding the Economic Foundations of Marriage and Fertility in the United States.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

currently married, and how many children they have. …

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The Impact of Institutional Reform 1979 Through 1987 on Fertility in Rural China.

Schultz, T.P.; Yi, Z. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsability system reforms in China from 1970 through 1987 and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility changes as measured in the in-depth fertility survey....

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Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940

Barnes, Geoffrey; Guinnane, Timothy - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

Simon Szreter’s book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility as reported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter’s conclusion made the book immediately influential,...

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Baby Boom or Bust? Changing Fertility in Post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia

Chase, R.S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

for children during Communism through substitution effects for women's earnings and income effects for men's. …

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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial,...

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Household Decision Making and Savings Impacts: Further Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Commitment devices for savings could benefit those with self-control as well as familial or spousal control issues. We find evidence to support both motivations. We examine the impact of a commitment savings product in the Philippines on household decision making power and self-perception of...

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Neue Impulse für die staatlich geförderte Rente

Reifner, Udo; Tiffe, Achim - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002812050