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in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …
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Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams'...
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in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650607
structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …
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We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
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and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …
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individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …
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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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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We …, implementation of the program is also robustly associated with increased labor supply of adults, reduced fertility, and increased …
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