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More schooling, more children? : compulsory schooling and fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

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Religion and growth

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

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021

relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2024

may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update

Bohn, Henning - 2003

Yes, subject to concerns about Medicare inefficiencies and potentially self-confirming skepticism. The U.S. social security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise...

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Financing retirement in the European Union

Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002

This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding the major developments that affect the pension...

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