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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 …
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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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We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …
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We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
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-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children …
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growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less …
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growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
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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 … ; redistribution ; ethnic diversity ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … society. -- public education ; private education ; integration ; fertility ; human capital …
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This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …
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