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Do cash transfers improve birth outcomes? Evidence from matched vital statistics, social security and program data
Amarante, Veronica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - 2011
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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HIV and fertility in Africa: first evidence from population based surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Özcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - 2009
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274407
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration
Holzmann, Robert - 2005
to deal with the projected shrinking of the labor forth in the North include moving the total fertility rate back to …
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Population and health policies
Schultz, T. Paul - 2009
interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269694
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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …
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The Baby Boom and World War II:A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor …
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Fertility Differences between Married andCohabiting Couples : A Switching Regression Analysis
Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using aswitching regression analysis, which enables us to …
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Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2000
The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the contribution of external migration to population growth. Next,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262378
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Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe: economic factors and labour market institutions
Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005
We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent...
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