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The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility : Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
Newell, Andrew - 2012
female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099715
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Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157750
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Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants : The Role of English Language Skills
Aoki, Yu - 2015
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012015
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education
Jacobs, Valentine - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and over-education, taking advantage of access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Covering more than 1.2 million workers, the data enable the authors to: i) measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860502
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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2021
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission … family-specific "cultural transmission" can affect fertility rates. In this context, we define "culture" as referring to …-family size is positively associated with her own completed fertility in the destination family and that her country of birth also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317336
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Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
Halliday, Timothy - 2008
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768175
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Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
vom Lehn, Christian - 2020
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827354
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data : A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316989
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Partisanship and Survey Refusal
Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren - 2022
Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081949
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Fertility and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129920