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We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
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We examine how far fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility … rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy settings on fertility … fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Our findings are robust once controlling for birth …
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returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using … Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate predominantly towards other Arab countries characterized by higher fertility …
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returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using … Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate predominantly towards other Arab countries characterized by higher fertility …
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fertility on mothers' labour supply and seems to help mothers to better conciliate family and professional life but our …
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The paper proposes an economic and cultural mechanism that can predict a fertility transition and its timing. The … cultural structure of the population is endogenously determined by a cultural evolution mechanism. The fertility rates … behaviours (in term of fertility) to the traditionalist parents. An increase in the average income level provoked by the …
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standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows …
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families: o On fertility and the decision to have children (chapter 3); authors M-Th. Letablier and O. Thévenon o On parents …
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Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly … to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until they get a son. Insurance through sons entails substantial …
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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