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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe: the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2008
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269054
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004
and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275026
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2020
childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497897
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Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761891
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700901
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Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments
Boca, Daniela Del; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566713
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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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HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008517970
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Measuring Knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351791
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The Stress Cost of Children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500292