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The paper uses data from the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2) to investigate the impact of fertility on … poverty in rural Malawi. We use two measures of poverty; the objective and the subjective. After accounting for endogeneity of … fertility by using son preference as an instrumental variable, we �nd that fertility increases the probability of being …
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Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular interest: His investigations on "Hours and Wages in Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On...
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This paper examines the effects on economic growth attributable to government policies of child allowances and educational subsidies. We show that multiple steady states may arise under these two policies, with club convergence occurring, and the initial condition being of relevance, if the tax...
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Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …
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of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …
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grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that women in Germany …' children increases the probability of having to commute. We build a general equilibrium model of residence choice, fertility …, fertility and labor market outcomes. We simulate our model to analyze how women's decisions regarding residence, fertility, and …
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.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where households reaching their childbearing years on the eve of WWI face a loss of …
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partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …
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We consider fertility choice and weather in analyzing the effect of farmland abundance in economic development. We find …
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