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fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …
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approximated by older families' income – on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a way that welfare usage should be based primarily on...
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For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In … this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast … fertility effect and that high-severity advisories have a significant negative fertility effect. As the type of advisory goes …
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undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …
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We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
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Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to replicate salient properties of these dynamics, such as the covariance structure of earnings, the...
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We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020–2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
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