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Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility
Wang, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the … history. As for the contribution of the policy to fertility transition, the measure explains a sizable level shift of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108099
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Is the fertility response to the Australian baby bonus heterogeneous across maternal age? Evidence from Victoria.
Sinclair, Sarah; Boymal, Jonathan; Silva, Ashton J de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111316
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The determinants of fertility in southeast and south Asian countries: an analysis of panel data
Teguh, Dartanto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The fertility rate in Southeast and South Asia is relatively high compared to other region in the world, but the trend … tends to decrease rapidly. This paper aims to quantitatively explore the factors influencing fertility rate in Southeast and …-2008 panel data, this study found that the infant mortality rate is an important factor influencing the high fertility rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113284
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Divorce and the birth control pill
MARCÉN, MIRIAM - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418496
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Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective
O'Higgins, Niall - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" and examines the various policy responses to it, including education and training, and active labour market policy. It emphasizes the need for adequate labour market information, policy monitoring and programme evaluation to help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534281
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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Villena, Mauricio G.; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the effects generated by the financial burden of childcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186477
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El empleo de los jóvenes en España: Del bloqueo en la entrada del mercado de trabajo a los programas de Garantía Juvenil
Malo, Miguel; Cueto, Begoña - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this article consists of analyzing the impact of the economic on working careers of different birth cohorts. We use the micro-data of the Spanish Labour Force Survey from 1976 to 2013 to calculate the labour market trajectory of men and women by birth cohort. During the crisis,...
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A numerical model of Philippine population growth: child policy, quantitative insights and challenges
Talabis, Dylan Antonio; Manay, Erick Justine; Babierra, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study investigates the effect of imposing an n-child policy by forecasting the population of the Philippines using a discrete age-structured compartmental model. Based on the results of the projection, a policy promoting a maximum of two children per couple leads to a transient stabilization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113041
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Human capital and the probability of divorce
zax, ori - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at increasing these households' income. In this paper we present a model that analyzes decisions made before and during marriage to invest in the human capital of parents and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113853
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Child Allowances, Educational Subsidies and Economic Growth
Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the effects on economic growth attributable to government policies of child allowances and educational subsidies. We show that multiple steady states may arise under these two policies, with club convergence occurring, and the initial condition being of relevance, if the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260054