Showing 1 - 10 of 123
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006901
enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 … an intensified fear of deportation, on likely unauthorized women’s fertility. Given immigrants’ critical contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599078
In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of the effect of uncertainty on fertility. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We use a new …. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty shocks decrease the fertility rate. This evidence is robust to different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019326
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098929
the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104642
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if the flow of immigrants as actually affected fertility … child-care services by immigrants has positively affected native fertility choice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390741
licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197979
past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women’s fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704269
Phelps's (1961) Golden Rule states an unambiguous relationship be- tween optimal capital intensity and fertility: a … rise in fertility decreases the optimal capital intensity, because a higher fertility increases the in- vestment required … 2 subpopulations having dis- tinct fertility behaviors. We derive the optimal accumulation rule in that framework, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364502
development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411420