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The effect of child care and part time opportunities on participation and fertility decisions in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 549-573
of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, low labor market … market participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data. The empirical …
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The sectoral labor supply of married couples in Brazil: Testing the unitary model of household behavior
Tiefenthaler, Jill - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 4, pp. 591-606
An assumption of the unitary model of household decision-making is that household members maximize one household utility function. This assumption implies that households pool their income and, therefore, the ownership of nonwage income has no effect on household demand. In this paper, this...
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Child care, women's employment, and child outcomes
Waldfogel, Jane - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 527-548
This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of child care and maternal employment in the pre-school years on child outcomes. This topic has long been of interest to economists, developmental psychologists, and scholars from other disciplines, and has been the focus of increased attention in...
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Optimal age at motherhood. Theoretical and empirical considerations on postponement of maternity in Europe
Gustafsson, Siv - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 225-247
. This increase of age at first birth is the main explanatory variable for the rapid decrease in fertility in European … the development of the period fertility rate it is therefore crucial to understand the determinants of optimal age at … explanatory variables. However, theoretical research identifies on the one hand consumption smoothing, and on the other hand …
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The extent of labour specialization in the extended family: A theoretical and empirical analysis
Sofer, Catherine; Lacroix, Guy; Picot, Michel - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 2, pp. 223-237
In this paper we present a simple model of labour supply that is cast within the framework of an extended family. The model emphasizes a Ricardian division of labour whereby the specialization is solely driven by marginal productivity and value of time differentials. The empirical implications...
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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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Uncertainty about children's survival and fertility: A test using indian microdata
Atella, Vincenzo; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 263-278
parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …
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Endogenous fertility in a model with non-dynastic parental altruism
Kollmann, Robert - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 87-95
A model of fertility choice is studied in which the utility of parents depends on how much they consume, on how many … children they have and on the consumption of their children. Hence, parents are altruistic towards their children, but in a … more limited sense than in the much discussed dynastic fertility model presented by Becker and Barro (1988). The concept of …
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Reducing the excess burden of subsidizing the stork: joint taxation, individual taxation, and family tax splitting
Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 3, pp. 1195-1207
Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that … moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a … Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an increase in labor supply and consumption and a reduction of the marginal …
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The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert; Papps, Kerry - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 405-435
Using the 1995–2011 March Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education … positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of … present some evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due at least in part to intergenerational …
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