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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
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Um den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt demografiefest zu machen, bedarf es einer stärkeren Aktivierung des Potenzials weiblicher Erwerbspersonen bei gleichzeitiger Steigerung der Geburtenrate. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Handlungsoptionen zur Lösung dieser beiden zentralen Zukunftsaufgaben auf und...
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Die Frage nach den Erfolgsaussichten einer auf steuerlichen Entlastungswirkungen basierenden Familienpolitik als Bevölkerungspolitik ist keineswegs neu. So keimte bereits aus Anlass von Plänen zu einer Steuerreform, bei der zum 1. Januar 1986 im Rahmen des Familienlastenausgleichs die...
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
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is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …
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The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …
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