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This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate … the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock … negative and significant effect on the total fertility rate. Looking at the entire spectrum of the fertility distribution, the …
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mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction …This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides …
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Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
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health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …
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While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...
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This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …
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in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …
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of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams'...
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fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive …- ousness should accentuate this fertility effect. The net fertility impact of the Covid-19 outbreak would ultimately depend not …
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