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failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
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This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …
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We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
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The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … predecessor, the Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF) fertility control policy. In this paper, we first study LLF's contribution to marriage … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …
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One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm and Peters (1990 …), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using time series methods. We revisit this question in … do not find evidence that child tax benefits affect the level of fertility, we find some evidence of a short …
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This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the budget constraint in different ways. The policy environment has important effects, particularly...
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Variation in tax policy presents an opportunity to estimate the responsiveness of fertility to prices. This paper … studied in the literature on AFDC and fertility. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate heterogeneous responses. I … find a strong effect of the policy on fertility, and some evidence of a heterogeneous response that may help reconcile …
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Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...
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at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …
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We investigate trends in the U.S. rate of teen childbearing between 1981 and 2010, giving particular attention to the sizable decline that has occurred since 1991. Our primary focus is on establishing the role of state-level demographic changes, economic conditions, and targeted policies in...
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