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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
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the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model … benefit system and analyze the long-run impact on fertility and female labor supply. Our simulations indicate three central …
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factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
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show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …
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whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …
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Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
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