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policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the … the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation …
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This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. This was …
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The main focus of this paper is to investigate the long run co-integration and short run dynamics between fertility … that long run co-integration and short run dynamics exist between total fertility rate and Human Development Indicators … birth prove the negative and significant impact on fertility, while GDP per capita indicated the positive but insignificant …
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This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805049
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … mother’s sex preference. This tendency was not observed for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621799
This study is encouraged to apply the methodology of economics to investigate the issue of gender selection of the traditional parents in China, which has been widely noted from the perspective of sociology. It is firstly argued that traditional society of China is a good object for economic...
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This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in Chinese labour market. In order to overcome the endogeneity problem of schooling, we consider the siblings structure and the available public facilities as instrumental...
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This paper describes the organization system of childcare services in Bulgaria from the point of vies of it’s availability, quality of services, affordability. The author draw out conclusions that the reforms of the childcare system is still in its’ initial stage as far as types of services...
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This study is encouraged to apply the methodology of economics to investigate the issue of gender selection of the traditional parents in China, which has been widely noted from the perspective of sociology. It is firstly argued that traditional society of China is a good object for economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260643
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...
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