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Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …
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Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …
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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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partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …
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In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have selected 1,490 families from the 1997- 2005 Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI) dataset. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born...
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This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …
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educational subsidies financed via government debt. In our model, we endogenize human capital and fertility without the strong … desirable outcome of our analysis is that fertility rates decline for the small and less developed countries. …
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educational subsidies financed via public debt and reduce their fertility rate. We show that subsidizing education through public …
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In the period before the onset of demographic transition, when fertility rates were positively associated with income …
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modified, fertility-endogenized definition of linearly separable two-way altruism examined by Abel (1987) and Altig and Davis …
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