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Labor market frictions and lowest low fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

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Demographic transitions across time and space

Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022

The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …

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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

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Distortions, endogenous managerial skills and productivity differences

Bhattacharya, Dhritiman; Guner, Nezih; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011

We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated with the size of production units. These distortions...

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Life cycle employment and fertility across institutional environments

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility …

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Why are fertility and women's employment rates so low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the UK

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Market work and motherhood decisions in contexts

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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Household choices and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of...

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