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the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … care. These findings lend support to a simple economic model in which the effects of population control policies are …
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R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … also in absence of population growth and generally is policy-dependent. …
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population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status … decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …
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There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
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Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our...
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822418