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accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …
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Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …
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Infertility currently affects over 6 million individuals in the United States. While most health insurance plans … examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …
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This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …
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participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …
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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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This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out … education expenditures. We have found the relation between the value of average consumption of population and the children …
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This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment …
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This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child … labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents …, who raise and educate children for both financial and altruistic reasons, will typically choose a too little schooling for …
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