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estimated a logit model of married women's part-time employment and a fertility equation in the context of a simultaneous … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …
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A strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …
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It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States … since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility …
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We study the behavioral changes due to marijuana consumption on fertility and its key mechanisms, as opposed to …
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …-if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock-low fertility beyond the early forties-is central to this gender …
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
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issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in … boom and generated a rise in women's human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for subsequent … associated with a rise in fertility for women born between 1921 and 1940, with a rise in college and high school graduation rates …
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affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …
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The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
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