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"Optimum Population -- A New Look: A Hamiltonian Approach Towards A Dynamic Analysis"

Bokhari, Farasat; McCarthy, George W. - EconWPA - 1996

The current optimum population models found in economic literature define static optimum population used in forming policy i.e. at a given instant what should be the optimum number of people in a (closed) economy. We believe that although this definition is useful, it is very limiting as far as...

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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … status affected the rate at which she had a second, third or fourth pregnancy. The study finds that the labor …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using …

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

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Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …

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Population ageing, labour markets and the outlook for public finances

Kinnunen, Helvi - EconWPA - 2004

Keeping public finances on a sustainable foundation while the population ages is clearly a problem in Finland, as in many other western countries. The shrinking of the working-age population, ageing of the labour force, and growth in the number of very old persons form a difficult combination...

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Dragon Children: Identifying the Causal Effect of the First Child on Female Labor Supply with the Chinese Lunar Calendar

Vere, James P. - EconWPA - 2004

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify … the causal effect of second and higher-parity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the …

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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show … such strategic manipulations on private intergenerational transfers, fertility and savings decisions, and on Pareto …

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The Price, Cost, Consumption and Value of Children

Bradbury, Bruce - EconWPA - 2004

Though they are related, the price, cost, consumption and value of children are not the same. This paper explores two aspects of the relationship between these concepts. Even if we restrict attention to the domain of commodity consumption, the cost of children is not the same as children's...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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