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De Nardi, Mariacristina; Jones, Larry E.; Boldrin, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inspired by...

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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...

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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We develop a theory of intergenerational transmission of preferences that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...

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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement

Chen, Stacey; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chen, Yen-Chien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...

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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India

Kugler, Adriana D.; Kumar, Santosh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by...

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Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria

Osili, Una Okonkwo; Long, Bridget Terry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The literature generally points to a negative relationship between female education and fertility. Citing this pattern, policymakers have advocated educating girls and young women as a means to reduce population growth and foster sustained economic and social welfare in developing countries....

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World employment programme : population and development

1977 - Repr. with corr. and rev.

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