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Who takes care of the children? The quantity-quality model revisited
Ohlsson, Henry; Lundholm, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 455-461
fertility is positive if child quantity is a closer complement than child quality to the consumption of goods. (ii) If, instead …, there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of …
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A model of endogenous divorce and endogenous fertility
Fan, Chengze Simon - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 1, pp. 101-117
This paper examines the interaction between decisions on divorce and fertility. The analysis generates two major … implications. Firstly, it complements the existing literature on endogenous fertility to explain why population growth and economic … development leads to a simultaneous increase in divorce rates and decrease in fertility rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622334
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The cost of children: May the collective approach to household behavior help?
Bourguignon, FranÚois - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 4, pp. 503-521
The collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect the general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169413
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Quasi-experimental evidence for the causal link between fertility and subjective well-being
Priebe, Jan - In: Journal of Population Economics 33 (2020) 3, pp. 839-882
This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …
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Child care workers' wages: New evidence on returns to education, experience, job tenure and auspice
Cleveland, Gordon H.; Hyatt, Douglas E. - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 575-597
Child care workers receive low hourly pay, modest returns to education, experience and job tenure, and have high rates of turnover. These stylized facts have caused analysts to characterize child care workers as secondary labour market participants. We use Canadian data to challenge this...
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Time for children: A study of parent's time allocation
Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 2, pp. 205-226
The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation framework. Economic incentives primarily work through decisions about market work, while the direct effects on time with children are weak....
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Wages, taxes and publicly provided day care
Ohlsson, Henry; Lundholm, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 2, pp. 185-204
Public employment growth has been parallelled by increased female labour force participation, while real wages for typical female public sector occupations have not increased. In a theoretical model we, first, show that there is a tradeoff between day care provision and gross wages for...
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Employment and child-care choices of single-parent families in Canada and the United States
Robins, Philip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 465-493
This paper examines employment and child-care choices of single-parent families with young children in the United States and Canada, using a pooled data set based on recent national surveys in each country. We find that the employment and child-care choices of Canadian families are similar to...
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An analysis of reproductive behaviour in Canada: Results from an intertemporal optimizing model
McIntosh, James - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 3, pp. 451-461
effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760412
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Be fruitful or multiply: On the interplay between fertility and economic development
Ahituv, Avner - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 1, pp. 51-71
This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the interplay between fertility and economic development. Using … interplay between fertility and output obtained from single cross-country regressions are biased downward because that method of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760426