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, parental earnings and participation in the labor market in the short or long run, completed fertility, marriage or divorce. Not …
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We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …
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Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead … level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on between cohort variation in country level HIV infection, he … estimates a large negative effect of HIV prevalence on fertility. However, the studies that utilize the recent rounds of …
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Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility, whereas within estimates that are identified of off …
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increase in the growth rate of productivity which accounts for about 90 percent of the predicted fall in fertility before 1880 …The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased …
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This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …
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critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that, in partial equilibrium (PE), increased fertility lowers … aggregate fertility on household savings. …
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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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Economic demographers have long analyzed fertility cycles. This paper builds a foundation for these cycles in a model … of fertility choice with dynastic altruism and aggregate shocks. It is shown that under reasonable parameter values …, fertility is pro-cyclical and that, following a shock, fertility continues to cycle endogenously as subsequent cohorts enter …
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evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …
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