This paper assesses the effect of a sequence of natural disasters on children’s health that hit Mozambique at the start …. Height-for-age z-scores of children between 1 and 3 years old is used to capture the cumulative effects of this sequence of … natural disasters. It was found that the effect of the disasters on these children’s height was, on average, -0.4236 standard …

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

educational subsidies financed via government debt. In our model, we endogenize human capital and fertility without the strong … desirable outcome of our analysis is that fertility rates decline for the small and less developed countries. …

educational subsidies financed via public debt and reduce their fertility rate. We show that subsidizing education through public …

In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent (and to his partner). Since the number of … children ever born (CEB) is a count variable, we have implemented three empirical models: Poisson, Zero-Truncated Poisson and …

In the period before the onset of demographic transition, when fertility rates were positively associated with income … children than the poor. Once the economic environment improves sufficiently, the evolutionary pressure weakens, and on the …

modified, fertility-endogenized definition of linearly separable two-way altruism examined by Abel (1987) and Altig and Davis … equilibrium path are also discussed. My calibration results and analyses show that (1) the combination of altruism toward parents … and children is crucial for determining a threshold level of initial human capital and productivity in a transition …

link with economic growth and that alteration in total fertility rate has a relationship with income distribution …