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Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …
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This paper projects the effects of exogenous fertility changes in Turkey on the age structure of population and the … and the fertility rate are endogenous. The calibrated version of the model delivers three important results: First …. Third, even under an increasing rate of technological progress, a permanent upward shift in fertility levels would imply …
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and fertility decisions, fit it to data from a national longitudinal survey and estimate it by Simulated Method of Moments … fertility changes occur not only at earlier periods but also after a career interruption when teachers are considering a … in nonteaching jobs is positively associated with the greatest impact that the policy has on fertility in nonteaching …
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In this paper, we apply an Overlapping Generations (OLG) model with endogenous fertility and a pay as you go (PAYG … growth it is possible to increase the fertility without harming any generation. Here we show that this is impossible in a …
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find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age …
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In this paper we analyzed a model of endogenous fertility in presence of f financial market assets and social security … pensions. Given the children externality and in the absence of corrective policy, the fertility rate chosen in market economy …
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, urbanization and female labour force participation play in determining fertility of women in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach … to 2009. Empirical results show that there exists a long run as well as short run relationship between fertility and … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …
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This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility decisions of adolescent women. To identify this effect, we … use the epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in fertility rates of teen women by ancestor’s home country …. Then, differences in fertility rates of adolescent women by national origin can be considered as supporting evidence of the …
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Economic theories of fertility decline often center on the rising net price of children. But empirical tests of such … household’s own children. Using a panel dataset of white Southern households between 1850 and 1870, I measure the fertility … household fertility rates. To further corroborate these results, I measure the fertility response of households to another shock …
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. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …
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