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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334338
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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure
Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on US Census data, the Current Population Survey, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210106
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When Children Rule : Parenting in Modern Families
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with two major economic and demographic changes, namely the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455594
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456606
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Endogenous Co-residence and Program Incidence : South Africa's Old Age Pension
Hamoudi, Amar - 2014
We investigate whether living arrangements respond to an arguably exogenous shift in the distribution of power in family economic decision-making. In the early 1990s, the South African Old Age Pension was expanded to cover most black South Africans above a sex-specific age cut-off resulting in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458736
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462926
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458194
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J. - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and … economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second … the fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s to the earlier 20th century fertility decline, especially the 1920s and 1930s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459063
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Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets : A Cross-National Analysis
Korenman, Sanders - 1997
youth cohort size. Finally, due to recent declines in fertility, some European countries will see reductions in the size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472786
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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
Berman, Eli - 2000
intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471230