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Meier, Volker (contributor); Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005

human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003113341

Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014

the political turmoil in the Arab world, with the so-called Arab Spring. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464999

Population sorting and human capital accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2021

-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628761

Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor); … - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301067

Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792218

The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. -- schooling ; fertility transition ; unified …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883851

The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

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 … increased during the first half of the nineteenth century. -- education ; fertility ; quantity-quality trade-off ; unified …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732244

On the Optimality of PAYG Pension Systems in an Endogenous Fertility Setting

Abío, G.; Mahieu, Geraldine; Patxot, Cio - 2003

fertility model that generates an endogenous demographic transition by means of distinguishing between female and male labor. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402633

Health capital provision and human capital accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171809

Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297

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