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We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
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R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...
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decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …
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Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …
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This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The … results show that woman's own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females …
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. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …
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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...
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