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discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
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, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
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This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
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It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its … negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on … consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The …
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This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from...
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I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate …
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The vast majority of the empirical literature on crime has focused on the effects of "supply-side" shocks such as the severity of laws and enforcement. In this paper we analyze the effects of a large and unexpected "demand-side" shock: the drop in daytime population in Washington, DC caused by...
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propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …
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women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …
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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …
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