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the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …
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effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system s own contributory base, because it reduces …
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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as … part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate … alone entails a higher fertility rate and a lower ratio of high- to low-ability children, as compared to using education …
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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …"This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
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fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …
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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
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more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
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