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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2006
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267633
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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004
?s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account. We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262024
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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities : Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study
Del Bono, Emilia - 2004
This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262062
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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262065
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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain
Adsera, Alicia - 2004
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262142
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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262186
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262610
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African countries with consideration to health and poverty
Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - 2008
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … results support Caldwell´s hypothesis and are generally supportive of hypothesis that a fertility transition is occurring. HIV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268528
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The baby boom and World War II: a macroeconomic analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - 2007
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268563