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lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms the rationale for this study to access the trend of factors … Nigeria) and developed nations (Germany and United States). The trend analysis revealed that fertility rate, crude death rate …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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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...
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Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …
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of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …
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grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that women in Germany …' children increases the probability of having to commute. We build a general equilibrium model of residence choice, fertility …, fertility and labor market outcomes. We simulate our model to analyze how women's decisions regarding residence, fertility, and …
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.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where households reaching their childbearing years on the eve of WWI face a loss of …
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partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …
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We consider fertility choice and weather in analyzing the effect of farmland abundance in economic development. We find …
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